Re: WARNING in apparmor_cred_free

From: John Johansen
Date: Wed Jan 16 2019 - 17:36:43 EST


On 1/16/19 1:14 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>
>> >From 47134986133c822e1d88860fa2b108f92c97a7ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:31:50 -0800
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] LSM: Check for NULL cred-security on free
>>
>> Check that the cred security blob has been set before trying
>> to clean it up. There is a case during credential initialization
>> that could result in this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> JJ: does this fix the problem?
>

sorry for not responding earlier, yes it does.

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>> ---
>> security/security.c | 7 +++++++
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
>> index a618e22df5c6..7bffc86d4e87 100644
>> --- a/security/security.c
>> +++ b/security/security.c
>> @@ -1477,6 +1477,13 @@ int security_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
>>
>> void security_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
>> {
>> + /*
>> + * There is a failure case in prepare_creds() that
>> + * may result in a call here with ->security being NULL.
>> + */
>> + if (unlikely(cred->security == NULL))
>> + return;
>> +
>> call_void_hook(cred_free, cred);
>>
>> kfree(cred->security);
>>
>