[PATCH] smackfs: check for allocation failures in smk_set_access()

From: Sergio Luis
Date: Sun Dec 21 2008 - 23:16:34 EST


smackfs: check for allocation failures in smk_set_access()

While adding a new subject/object pair to smack_list, smk_set_access()
didn't check the return of kzalloc().

This patch changes smk_set_access() to return 0 or -ENOMEM, based on
kzalloc()'s return. It also updates its caller, smk_write_load(), to
check for smk_set_access()'s return, given it is no longer a void
return function.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Luis <sergio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: LSM <linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: LKLM <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

security/smack/smackfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index c21d8c8..44eb933 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -185,11 +185,15 @@ static int smk_open_load(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* the subject/object pair and replaces the access that was
* there. If the pair isn't found add it with the specified
* access.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if nothing goes wrong or -ENOMEM if it fails
+ * during the allocation of the new pair to add.
*/
-static void smk_set_access(struct smack_rule *srp)
+static int smk_set_access(struct smack_rule *srp)
{
struct smk_list_entry *sp;
struct smk_list_entry *newp;
+ int ret = 0;

mutex_lock(&smack_list_lock);

@@ -202,14 +206,20 @@ static void smk_set_access(struct smack_rule *srp)

if (sp == NULL) {
newp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smk_list_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (newp == NULL) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
newp->smk_rule = *srp;
newp->smk_next = smack_list;
smack_list = newp;
}

+out:
mutex_unlock(&smack_list_lock);

- return;
+ return ret;
}

/**
@@ -309,8 +319,10 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_load(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
goto out;
}

- smk_set_access(&rule);
- rc = count;
+ rc = smk_set_access(&rule);
+
+ if (!rc)
+ rc = count;

out:
kfree(data);
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