In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy
without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue,
so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed.
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
int security_read_state_kernel(struct selinux_state *state,
void **data, size_t *len)
{
+ int err;
struct selinux_policy *policy;
policy = rcu_dereference_protected(
if (!*data)
return -ENOMEM;
- return __security_read_policy(policy, *data, len);
+ err = __security_read_policy(policy, *data, len);
+ if (err) {
+ vfree(*data);
+ *data = NULL;
+ *len = 0;
+ }
+ return err;
}