kernel/auditfilter.c: tree and watch will memory leak when failure occurs
In audit_data_to_entry() when a failure occurs we must check and free the tree and watch to avoid a memory leak. test: plan: test command: "auditctl -a exit,always -w /etc -F auid=-1" (on fedora17, need modify auditctl to let "-w /etc" has effect) running: under fedora17 x86_64, 2 CPUs 3.20GHz, 2.5GB RAM. let 15 auditctl processes continue running at the same time. monitor command: watch -d -n 1 "cat /proc/meminfo | awk '{print \$2}' \ | head -n 4 | xargs \ | awk '{print \"used \",\$1 - \$2 - \$3 - \$4}'" result: for original version: will use up all memory, within 3 hours. kill all auditctl, the memory still does not free. for new version (apply this patch): after 14 hours later, not find issues. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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