Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:52:59 -0500 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference |
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On 2018-02-21 01:47, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > If there is a memory allocation error when trying to change an audit > kernel feature value, the ignored allocation error will trigger a NULL > pointer dereference oops on subsequent use of that pointer. Return > instead. > > See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/76 > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Self-NACK. It was based on local development and won't compile on upstream. Fix pending.
> --- > kernel/audit.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c > index 196d327..31cb11d 100644 > --- a/kernel/audit.c > +++ b/kernel/audit.c > @@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ static void audit_log_feature_change(int which, u32 old_feature, u32 new_feature > return; > > ab = audit_log_start(context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE); > + if (!ab) > + return; > audit_log_task_info(ab, current); > audit_log_format(ab, " feature=%s old=%u new=%u old_lock=%u new_lock=%u res=%d", > audit_feature_names[which], !!old_feature, !!new_feature, > -- > 1.8.3.1 >
- RGB
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