Re: [PATCH 1/9] selinux: check return value of sel_make_avc_files

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Jan 25 2022 - 19:36:14 EST


On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:15 AM Christian Göttsche
<cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> sel_make_avc_files() might fail and return a negative errno value on
> memory allocation failures. Re-add the check of the return value,
> dropped in 66f8e2f03c02.
>
> Reported by clang-analyzer:
>
> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c:2129:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> ret = sel_make_avc_files(dentry);
> ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fixes: 66f8e2f03c02 ("selinux: sidtab reverse lookup hash table")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Merged into selinux/next, thanks Christian.

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