This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled apparmor: Fix memory leak in unpack_profile() to the 6.7-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-memory-leak-in-unpack_profile.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ea2e4b38057d5ff36f63627ecbf34c77b153864a Author: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 5 10:01:26 2024 +0800 apparmor: Fix memory leak in unpack_profile() [ Upstream commit 8ead196be219adade3bd0d4115cc9b8506643121 ] The aa_put_pdb(rules->file) should be called when rules->file is reassigned, otherwise there may be a memory leak. This was found via kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff986c17056600 (size 192): comm "apparmor_parser", pid 875, jiffies 4294893488 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 89 14 04 6c 98 ff ff ............l... 00 00 8c 11 6c 98 ff ff bc 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....l........... backtrace (crc e28c80c4): [<ffffffffba25087f>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4f/0x90 [<ffffffffb95ecd42>] kmalloc_trace+0x2d2/0x340 [<ffffffffb98a7b3d>] aa_alloc_pdb+0x4d/0x90 [<ffffffffb98ab3b8>] unpack_pdb+0x48/0x660 [<ffffffffb98ac073>] unpack_profile+0x693/0x1090 [<ffffffffb98acf5a>] aa_unpack+0x10a/0x6e0 [<ffffffffb98a93e3>] aa_replace_profiles+0xa3/0x1210 [<ffffffffb989a183>] policy_update+0x163/0x2a0 [<ffffffffb989a381>] profile_replace+0xb1/0x130 [<ffffffffb966cb64>] vfs_write+0xd4/0x3d0 [<ffffffffb966d05b>] ksys_write+0x6b/0xf0 [<ffffffffb966d10e>] __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30 [<ffffffffba242316>] do_syscall_64+0x76/0x120 [<ffffffffba4000e5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74 So add aa_put_pdb(rules->file) to fix it when rules->file is reassigned. Fixes: 98b824ff8984 ("apparmor: refcount the pdb") Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c index dbf7d96257ad..5e578ef0ddff 100644 --- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c @@ -1025,8 +1025,10 @@ static struct aa_profile *unpack_profile(struct aa_ext *e, char **ns_name) } } else if (rules->policy->dfa && rules->policy->start[AA_CLASS_FILE]) { + aa_put_pdb(rules->file); rules->file = aa_get_pdb(rules->policy); } else { + aa_put_pdb(rules->file); rules->file = aa_get_pdb(nullpdb); } error = -EPROTO;