[PATCH] seccomp: don't leave dangling ->notif if file allocation fails

[Tycho Andersen]

Christian and Kees both pointed out that this is a bit sloppy to open-code
both places, and Christian points out that we leave a dangling pointer to
->notif if file allocation fails. Since we check ->notif for null in order
to determine if it's ok to install a filter, this means people won't be
able to install a filter if the file allocation fails for some reason, even
if they subsequently should be able to.

To fix this, let's hoist this free+null into its own little helper and use
it.

Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
---
 kernel/seccomp.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index bb0dd9ae699a..676d4af62103 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -1109,6 +1109,12 @@ static long seccomp_set_mode_strict(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER
+static void seccomp_notify_free(struct seccomp_filter *filter)
+{
+	kfree(filter->notif);
+	filter->notif = NULL;
+}
+
 static void seccomp_notify_detach(struct seccomp_filter *filter)
 {
 	struct seccomp_knotif *knotif;
@@ -1138,8 +1144,7 @@ static void seccomp_notify_detach(struct seccomp_filter *filter)
 		complete(&knotif->ready);
 	}
 
-	kfree(filter->notif);
-	filter->notif = NULL;
+	seccomp_notify_free(filter);
 	mutex_unlock(&filter->notify_lock);
 }
 
@@ -1494,7 +1499,7 @@ static struct file *init_listener(struct seccomp_filter *filter)
 
 out_notif:
 	if (IS_ERR(ret))
-		kfree(filter->notif);
+		seccomp_notify_free(filter);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }

base-commit: 7b6aa0bb62fd6fd50f2d14136136262d28fb2dfe
-- 
2.25.1