[PATCH 3/3] selinux: Use an other error code for an input validation failure in sidtab_insert()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 07:16:33 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 12:23:41 +0200

The error code "-ENOMEM" was also returned so far when the parameter "s"
of this function contained a null pointer.
Now I find that the code "-EINVAL" is more appropriate in this case.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
index c5f436b15d19..2eb2a54b88d2 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ int sidtab_insert(struct sidtab *s, u32 sid, struct context *context)
struct sidtab_node *prev, *cur, *newnode;

if (!s)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return -EINVAL;

hvalue = SIDTAB_HASH(sid);
prev = NULL;
--
2.12.2