From: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:24:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header
X-Git-Tag: v7.0-rc4~38^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e38c55d9f834e5b848bfed0f5c586aaf45acb825;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header

The function sets `*ns = NULL` on every call, leaking the namespace
string allocated in previous iterations when multiple profiles are
unpacked. This also breaks namespace consistency checking since *ns
is always NULL when the comparison is made.

Remove the incorrect assignment.
The caller (aa_unpack) initializes *ns to NULL once before the loop,
which is sufficient.

Fixes: dd51c8485763 ("apparmor: provide base for multiple profiles to be replaced at once")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
index ba5d40dbeb24..5d90ea55de82 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
@@ -1419,7 +1419,6 @@ static int verify_header(struct aa_ext *e, int required, const char **ns)
 {
 	int error = -EPROTONOSUPPORT;
 	const char *name = NULL;
-	*ns = NULL;
 
 	/* get the interface version */
 	if (!aa_unpack_u32(e, &e->version, "version")) {