[PATCH] apparmor: Fix two bugs of aa_setup_dfa_engine's fail handling

From: GONG Ruiqi

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 23:37:18 EST


First, aa_dfa_unpack returns ERR_PTR not NULL when it fails, but
aa_put_dfa only checks NULL for its input, which would cause invalid
memory access in aa_put_dfa. Set nulldfa to NULL explicitly to fix that.

Second, aa_put_pdb calls aa_pdb_free_kref -> aa_free_pdb -> aa_put_dfa,
i.e. it will free nullpdb->dfa. But there's another aa_put_dfa(nulldfa)
after aa_put_pdb(nullpdb), which would cause double free. Remove that
redundant aa_put_dfa to fix that.

Fixes: 98b824ff8984 ("apparmor: refcount the pdb")
Signed-off-by: GONG Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/apparmor/lsm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index c1d42fc72fdb..be82ec1b9fd9 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -2465,6 +2465,7 @@ static int __init aa_setup_dfa_engine(void)
TO_ACCEPT2_FLAG(YYTD_DATA32));
if (IS_ERR(nulldfa)) {
error = PTR_ERR(nulldfa);
+ nulldfa = NULL;
goto fail;
}
nullpdb->dfa = aa_get_dfa(nulldfa);
@@ -2486,7 +2487,6 @@ static int __init aa_setup_dfa_engine(void)

fail:
aa_put_pdb(nullpdb);
- aa_put_dfa(nulldfa);
nullpdb = NULL;
nulldfa = NULL;
stacksplitdfa = NULL;
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2.43.0