4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 77c1c03c5b8ef28e55bb0aff29b1e006037ca645 ] We must call security_release_secctx to free the memory returned by security_secid_to_secctx, otherwise memory may be leaked forever. Fixes: ef493bd930ae ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: add security context information") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) { skb_tx_error(entskb); - return NULL; + goto nlmsg_failure; } nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n if (!nlh) { skb_tx_error(entskb); kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + goto nlmsg_failure; } nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh); nfmsg->nfgen_family = entry->state.pf; @@ -542,12 +542,17 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n } nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->len; + if (seclen) + security_release_secctx(secdata, seclen); return skb; nla_put_failure: skb_tx_error(entskb); kfree_skb(skb); net_err_ratelimited("nf_queue: error creating packet message\n"); +nlmsg_failure: + if (seclen) + security_release_secctx(secdata, seclen); return NULL; }