Re: [PATCH] hooks: fix a missing-check bug in selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()

From: Ondrej Mosnacek
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 04:32:29 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:53 AM Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts(), 'arg' is allocated by kmemdup_nul(). It
> returns NULL when fails. So 'arg' should be checked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx>

Since it looks like you are going to respin this patch, please add:

Fixes: 99dbbb593fe6 ("selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()")

to the commit message so that there is a record of which commit
introduced the issue (then it can be picked up automatically for
backport into the relevant stable kernels).

Thanks for spotting the issue and sending the patch(es)!

> ---
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 3ec702c..5a9e959 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -2635,6 +2635,8 @@ static int selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts(char *options, void **mnt_opts)
> *q++ = c;
> }
> arg = kmemdup_nul(arg, q - arg, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!arg)
> + return 0;
> }
> rc = selinux_add_opt(token, arg, mnt_opts);
> if (unlikely(rc)) {

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Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat dot com>
Software Engineer, Security Technologies
Red Hat, Inc.