This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns() to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: apparmor-fix-memleak-in-alloc_ns.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 62f030714c8d7a91596348967fe3171e8a4624f5 Author: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 28 20:33:20 2022 +0800 apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns() [ Upstream commit e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b ] After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(), use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it. Fixes: a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement") Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c index 43beaad083fe..78700d94b453 100644 --- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static struct aa_ns *alloc_ns(const char *prefix, const char *name) return ns; fail_unconfined: - kfree_sensitive(ns->base.hname); + aa_policy_destroy(&ns->base); fail_ns: kfree_sensitive(ns); return NULL;