Re: [PATCH] selinux: fix error handling bugs in security_load_policy()

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Wed Aug 26 2020 - 08:50:10 EST


On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:32 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are a few bugs in the error handling for security_load_policy().
>
> 1) If the newpolicy->sidtab allocation fails then it leads to a NULL
> dereference. Also the error code was not set to -ENOMEM on that
> path.
> 2) If policydb_read() failed then we call policydb_destroy() twice
> which meands we call kvfree(p->sym_val_to_name[i]) twice.
> 3) If policydb_load_isids() failed then we call sidtab_destroy() twice
> and that results in a double free in the sidtab_destroy_tree()
> function because entry.ptr_inner and entry.ptr_leaf are not set to
> NULL.
>
> One thing that makes this code nice to deal with is that none of the
> functions return partially allocated data. In other words, the
> policydb_read() either allocates everything successfully or it frees
> all the data it allocates. It never returns a mix of allocated and
> not allocated data.
>
> I re-wrote this to only free the successfully allocated data which
> avoids the double frees. I also re-ordered selinux_policy_free() so
> it's in the reverse order of the allocation function.
>
> Fixes: c7c556f1e81b ("selinux: refactor changing booleans")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

I guess this wasn't against current selinux next branch?

patching file security/selinux/ss/services.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2145 (offset 18 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2263 (offset 39 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 2303 with fuzz 1 (offset 47 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 2323 (offset 42 lines).

But otherwise it looked good to me.

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx>