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Commit d64d3873 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by David S. Miller
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[NET]: Fix memory leak in sys_{send,recv}msg() w/compat



From: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com>

sendmsg()/recvmsg() syscalls from o32/n32 apps to a 64bit kernel will
cause a kernel memory leak if iov_len > UIO_FASTIOV for each syscall!

This is because both sys_sendmsg() and verify_compat_iovec() kmalloc a
new iovec structure.  Only the one from sys_sendmsg() is free'ed.

I wrote a simple test program to confirm this after identifying the
problem:

http://davej.org/programs/testsendmsg.c

Note that the below fix will break solaris_sendmsg()/solaris_recvmsg() as
it also calls verify_compat_iovec() but expects it to malloc internally.

[ I fixed that. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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