Re: [PATCH v2] hooks: fix a missing-check bug in selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()

[Gen Zhang]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:45:28AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:34 PM 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>
> > Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 99dbbb593fe6 ("selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()")
> 
> One quick note about the subject line, instead of using "hooks:" you
> should use "selinux:" since this is specific to SELinux.  If the patch
> did apply to the LSM framework as a whole, I would suggest using
> "lsm:" instead of "hooks:" as "hooks" is too ambiguous of a prefix.
> 
> > 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 -ENOMEM;
> 
> It seems like we should also check for, and potentially free *mnt_opts
> as the selinux_add_opt() error handling does just below this change,
> yes?  If that is the case we might want to move that error handling
> code to the bottom of the function and jump there on error.
> 
> >                         }
> >                         rc = selinux_add_opt(token, arg, mnt_opts);
> >                         if (unlikely(rc)) {
> 
> -- 
> paul moore
> www.paul-moore.com
Yes, I agree with that. And I will work on this to resubmit.

Thanks
Gen