Re: [PATCH 2/2] apparmor: Fully initialize aa_perms struct when answering userspace query

From: John Johansen
Date: Thu Jul 19 2018 - 19:29:15 EST


On 07/05/2018 10:25 PM, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> Fully initialize the aa_perms struct in profile_query_cb() to avoid the
> potential of using an uninitialized struct member's value in a response
> to a query from userspace.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan CID#1415126 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>
> Fixes: 4f3b3f2d79a4 ("apparmor: add profile permission query ability"> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've pulled this into apparmor-next

> ---
> security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
> index 949dd8a48164..e09fe4d7307c 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
> @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ static const struct file_operations aa_fs_ns_revision_fops = {
> static void profile_query_cb(struct aa_profile *profile, struct aa_perms *perms,
> const char *match_str, size_t match_len)
> {
> - struct aa_perms tmp;
> + struct aa_perms tmp = { };
> struct aa_dfa *dfa;
> unsigned int state = 0;
>
> @@ -613,7 +613,6 @@ static void profile_query_cb(struct aa_profile *profile, struct aa_perms *perms,
> dfa = profile->file.dfa;
> state = aa_dfa_match_len(dfa, profile->file.start,
> match_str + 1, match_len - 1);
> - tmp = nullperms;
> if (state) {
> struct path_cond cond = { };
>
> @@ -627,8 +626,6 @@ static void profile_query_cb(struct aa_profile *profile, struct aa_perms *perms,
> match_str, match_len);
> if (state)
> aa_compute_perms(dfa, state, &tmp);
> - else
> - tmp = nullperms;
> }
> aa_apply_modes_to_perms(profile, &tmp);
> aa_perms_accum_raw(perms, &tmp);
>