[PATCH] lkdtm: Add checks after calling kmalloc and vmalloc

From: Jiasheng Jiang
Date: Wed Aug 31 2022 - 03:01:46 EST


As the potential failure of the memory allocation,
it should be better to check the return value after
calling kmalloc and vmalloc and skip the execute_location
if fails.

Fixes: cc33c537c12f ("lkdtm: add "EXEC_*" triggers")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
index b93404d65650..9ba927d74973 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
@@ -180,14 +180,16 @@ static void lkdtm_EXEC_STACK(void)
static void lkdtm_EXEC_KMALLOC(void)
{
u32 *kmalloc_area = kmalloc(EXEC_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
- execute_location(kmalloc_area, CODE_WRITE);
+ if (kmalloc_area)
+ execute_location(kmalloc_area, CODE_WRITE);
kfree(kmalloc_area);
}

static void lkdtm_EXEC_VMALLOC(void)
{
u32 *vmalloc_area = vmalloc(EXEC_SIZE);
- execute_location(vmalloc_area, CODE_WRITE);
+ if (vmalloc_area)
+ execute_location(vmalloc_area, CODE_WRITE);
vfree(vmalloc_area);
}

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2.25.1