Re: [PATCH v2] hooks: fix a missing-check bug in selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()

From: Ondrej Mosnacek
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 07:55:59 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:51 AM Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts(), 'arg' is allocated by kmemdup_nul(). It
> returns NULL when fails. So 'arg' should be checked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 99dbbb593fe6 ("selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()")
> ---
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 3ec702c..5a9e959 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -2635,6 +2635,8 @@ static int selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts(char *options, void **mnt_opts)
> *q++ = c;
> }
> arg = kmemdup_nul(arg, q - arg, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!arg)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> }
> rc = selinux_add_opt(token, arg, mnt_opts);
> if (unlikely(rc)) {

Looking at the callers of security_sb_eat_lsm_opts() (which is the
function that eventually calls the selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts() hook),
-ENOMEM should be appropriate here.

Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat dot com>
Software Engineer, Security Technologies
Red Hat, Inc.