[PATCH] leak in audit_inode_context
Hi,
Tracked down the last memory leak that I can see. When inode data
gets updated, new context information is allocated and the ctx pointer
gets overwritten without freeing what it points to. The patch below fixes
this.
Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com>
diff -urp linux-2.6.15.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c linux-2.6.15.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c
--- linux-2.6.15.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-03-09 16:53:46.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-03-09 16:52:10.000000000 -0500
@@ -985,6 +985,7 @@ void audit_inode_context(int idx, const
if (len < 0)
goto error_path;
+ kfree(context->names[idx].ctx);
context->names[idx].ctx = ctx;
goto ret;