This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
apparmor: fix leak of null profile name if profile allocation fails
to the 4.14-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-leak-of-null-profile-name-if-profile-allocation-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017
From: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:25:30 -0800
Subject: apparmor: fix leak of null profile name if profile allocation fails
From: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4633307e5ed6128975595df43f796a10c41d11c1 ]
Fixes: d07881d2edb0 ("apparmor: move new_null_profile to after profile lookup fns()")
Reported-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/apparmor/policy.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/security/apparmor/policy.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy.c
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ struct aa_profile *aa_new_null_profile(s
{
struct aa_profile *p, *profile;
const char *bname;
- char *name;
+ char *name = NULL;
AA_BUG(!parent);
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ out:
return profile;
fail:
+ kfree(name);
aa_free_profile(profile);
return NULL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/apparmor-fix-leak-of-null-profile-name-if-profile-allocation-fails.patch