On 2/5/21 2:05 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:49:50AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
IMA allocates kernel virtual memory to carry forward the measurement
list, from the current kernel to the next kernel on kexec system call,
in ima_add_kexec_buffer() function. In error code paths this memory
is not freed resulting in memory leak.
Free the memory allocated for the IMA measurement list in
the error code paths in ima_add_kexec_buffer() function.
Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nra...@linux.microsoft.com>
Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@linux.microsoft.com>
Fixes: 7b8589cc29e7 ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list")
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security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
Thanks for the info Greg.
I will re-submit the two patches in the proper format.
-lakshmi
