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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-01-11 14:32:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -0800 |
| commit | 0644ec0cc8a33fb654e348897ad7684e22a4b5d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 95a0532a89fdd148593c4bd52faa055d308e3380 /kernel/audit.c | |
| parent | 7b9205bd775afc4439ed86d617f9042ee9e76a71 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-0644ec0cc8a33fb654e348897ad7684e22a4b5d8.tar.gz lwn-0644ec0cc8a33fb654e348897ad7684e22a4b5d8.zip | |
audit: catch possible NULL audit buffers
It's possible for audit_log_start() to return NULL. Handle it in the
various callers.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@google.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/audit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/audit.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 40414e9143db..a219998aecc1 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ static int audit_log_config_change(char *function_name, int new, int old, int rc = 0; ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE); + if (unlikely(!ab)) + return rc; audit_log_format(ab, "%s=%d old=%d auid=%u ses=%u", function_name, new, old, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, loginuid), sessionid); if (sid) { @@ -619,6 +621,8 @@ static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer **ab, u16 msg_type, } *ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, msg_type); + if (unlikely(!*ab)) + return rc; audit_log_format(*ab, "pid=%d uid=%u auid=%u ses=%u", task_tgid_vnr(current), from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()), |