On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, David Howells wrote: > From: David Jeffery <[email protected]> > > If a request_key() call to allocate and fill out a key attempts to insert the > key structure into a revoked keyring, the key will leak, using memory and part > of the user's key quota until the system reboots. This is from a failure of > construct_alloc_key() to decrement the key's reference count after the attempt > to insert into the requested keyring is rejected. > > key_put() needs to be called in the link_prealloc_failed callpath to ensure > the unused key is released. > > Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
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