From: Colin Ian King Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: ensure we free the assoc array edit if edit is valid __key_link_end is not freeing the associated array edit structure and this leads to a 512 byte memory leak each time an identical existing key is added with add_key(). The reason the add_key() system call returns okay is that key_create_or_update() calls __key_link_begin() before checking to see whether it can update a key directly rather than adding/replacing - which it turns out it can. Thus __key_link() is not called through __key_instantiate_and_link() and __key_link_end() must cancel the edit. CVE-2015-1333 Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: David Howells --- diff --git a/security/keys/keyring.c b/security/keys/keyring.c index e72548b5897e..d33437007ad2 100644 --- a/security/keys/keyring.c +++ b/security/keys/keyring.c @@ -1181,9 +1181,11 @@ void __key_link_end(struct key *keyring, if (index_key->type == &key_type_keyring) up_write(&keyring_serialise_link_sem); - if (edit && !edit->dead_leaf) { - key_payload_reserve(keyring, - keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES); + if (edit) { + if (!edit->dead_leaf) { + key_payload_reserve(keyring, + keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES); + } assoc_array_cancel_edit(edit); } up_write(&keyring->sem);