This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ima: Simplify ima_lsm_copy_rule to the 6.1-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: ima-simplify-ima_lsm_copy_rule.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1fcf58270ffd487ad8531807f4fb68b7395a4fe8 Author: GUO Zihua <guozihua@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 21 20:58:03 2022 +0800 ima: Simplify ima_lsm_copy_rule [ Upstream commit d57378d3aa4d864d9e590482602068af1b20c0c5 ] Currently ima_lsm_copy_rule() set the arg_p field of the source rule to NULL, so that the source rule could be freed afterward. It does not make sense for this behavior to be inside a "copy" function. So move it outside and let the caller handle this field. ima_lsm_copy_rule() now produce a shallow copy of the original entry including args_p field. Meaning only the lsm.rule and the rule itself should be freed for the original rule. Thus, instead of calling ima_lsm_free_rule() which frees lsm.rule as well as args_p field, free the lsm.rule directly. Signed-off-by: GUO Zihua <guozihua@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c index bb3707160b01..2edff7f58c25 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c @@ -398,12 +398,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) nentry->lsm[i].type = entry->lsm[i].type; nentry->lsm[i].args_p = entry->lsm[i].args_p; - /* - * Remove the reference from entry so that the associated - * memory will not be freed during a later call to - * ima_lsm_free_rule(entry). - */ - entry->lsm[i].args_p = NULL; ima_filter_rule_init(nentry->lsm[i].type, Audit_equal, nentry->lsm[i].args_p, @@ -417,6 +411,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) static int ima_lsm_update_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) { + int i; struct ima_rule_entry *nentry; nentry = ima_lsm_copy_rule(entry); @@ -431,7 +426,8 @@ static int ima_lsm_update_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) * references and the entry itself. All other memory references will now * be owned by nentry. */ - ima_lsm_free_rule(entry); + for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++) + ima_filter_rule_free(entry->lsm[i].rule); kfree(entry); return 0;