From nobody Fri Apr 10 17:10:40 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789D8C00140 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232384AbiHVC3N (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:29:13 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33268 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232199AbiHVC3K (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:29:10 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3A301EC55 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kwepemi500012.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4M9x7s4Sn8znTfY; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:26:49 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggphis33418.huawei.com (10.244.148.83) by kwepemi500012.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.12) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:29:05 +0800 From: Gaosheng Cui To: , , , , , CC: , Subject: [PATCH next] audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:29:05 +0800 Message-ID: <20220822022905.1949007-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.244.148.83] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To kwepemi500012.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.12) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Audit_alloc_mark() assign pathname to audit_mark->path, on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark(), fsnotify_put_mark will free memory of audit_mark->path, but the caller of audit_alloc_mark will free the pathname again, so there will be double free problem. Fix this by resetting audit_mark->path to NULL pointer on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark(). Fixes: 7b1293234084d ("fsnotify: Add group pointer in fsnotify_init_mark()") Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c index 6432a37ac1c9..c565fbf66ac8 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c +++ b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct aud= it_krule *krule, char *pa =20 ret =3D fsnotify_add_inode_mark(&audit_mark->mark, inode, 0); if (ret < 0) { + audit_mark->path =3D NULL; fsnotify_put_mark(&audit_mark->mark); audit_mark =3D ERR_PTR(ret); } --=20 2.25.1