Re: [PATCH v3] selinux: lsm: fix a missing-check bug in selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri May 31 2019 - 22:38:38 EST


On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 03:25:27AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 10:15:26AM +0800, Gen Zhang wrote:
> > In selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts(), 'arg' is allocated by kmemdup_nul(). It
> > returns NULL when fails. So 'arg' should be checked. And 'mnt_opts'
> > should be freed when error.
>
> What's the latter one for? On failure we'll get to put_fs_context()
> pretty soon, so
> security_free_mnt_opts(&fc->security);
> will be called just fine. Leaving it allocated on failure is fine...

Actually, right now in mainline it is not (btrfs_mount_root() has
an odd call of security_sb_eat_lsm_opts()); eventually we will be
down to just the callers in ->parse_monolithic() instances, at which
point the above will become correct. At the moment it is not, so
consider the objection withdrawn (and I really need to get some sleep,
seeing how long did it take me to recall the context... ;-/)