Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Smack: fix a NULL dereference in wrong smack_import_entry() usage | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Date | Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:19:13 -0700 |
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On 8/25/2015 3:39 AM, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote: > The e774ad683f425a51f87711164ea166d9dcc41477 commit made this function > return proper error codes instead of NULL. Reflect that. > > This is a fix for a NULL dereference introduced in > 21abb1ec414c75abe32c3854848ff30e2b4a6113: > > echo "$SOME_IPV6_ADDR \"test" > /smack/ipv6host > (this should return EINVAL, it doesn't) > cat /smack/ipv6host > (derefences 0x000a) > > Signed-off-by: Lukasz Pawelczyk <l.pawelczyk@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Applied to https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next.git#smack-for-4.4
> --- > security/smack/smackfs.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c > index c20b154..103a619 100644 > --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c > +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c > @@ -1501,8 +1501,8 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_net6addr(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, > */ > if (smack[0] != '-') { > skp = smk_import_entry(smack, 0); > - if (skp == NULL) { > - rc = -EINVAL; > + if (IS_ERR(skp)) { > + rc = PTR_ERR(skp); > goto free_out; > } > } else {
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