CRED: Fix double free in prepare_usermodehelper_creds() error handling

Patch 570b8fb505896e007fd3bb07573ba6640e51851d:

	Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
	Date:   Tue Mar 30 00:04:00 2010 +0100
	Subject: CRED: Fix memory leak in error handling

attempts to fix a memory leak in the error handling by making the offending
return statement into a jump down to the bottom of the function where a
kfree(tgcred) is inserted.

This is, however, incorrect, as it does a kfree() after doing put_cred() if
security_prepare_creds() fails.  That will result in a double free if 'error'
is jumped to as put_cred() will also attempt to free the new tgcred record by
virtue of it being pointed to by the new cred record.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index e1dbe9eef800b8be745650d095334df6be4ab433..ce1a52b9e8a3bd7b99f2e9b2ad4b1cadcebc6cc3 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -398,6 +398,8 @@ struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
 
 error:
        put_cred(new);
+       return NULL;
+
 free_tgcred:
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
        kfree(tgcred);