This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
key: Fix resource leak
to the 3.4-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:
key-fix-resource-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a84a921978b7d56e0e4b87ffaca6367429b4d8ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:20:02 +0100
Subject: key: Fix resource leak
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit a84a921978b7d56e0e4b87ffaca6367429b4d8ff upstream.
On an error iov may still have been reallocated and need freeing
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/keys/keyctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1081,12 +1081,12 @@ long keyctl_instantiate_key_iov(key_seri
ret = rw_copy_check_uvector(WRITE, _payload_iov, ioc,
ARRAY_SIZE(iovstack), iovstack, &iov, 1);
if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
+ goto err;
if (ret == 0)
goto no_payload_free;
ret = keyctl_instantiate_key_common(id, iov, ioc, ret, ringid);
-
+err:
if (iov != iovstack)
kfree(iov);
return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/key-fix-resource-leak.patch
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