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| author | Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> | 2012-10-04 19:57:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-10-09 23:33:37 -0400 |
| commit | d1c7d97ad58836affde6e39980b96527510b572e (patch) | |
| tree | 4020ac7f88154d5dd919fdf371472ea9153a656e /kernel/audit.c | |
| parent | ffd8d101a3a7d3f2e79deee1e342801703b6dc70 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d1c7d97ad58836affde6e39980b96527510b572e.tar.gz lwn-d1c7d97ad58836affde6e39980b96527510b572e.zip | |
fs: handle failed audit_log_start properly
audit_log_start() may return NULL, this is unchecked by the caller in
audit_log_link_denied() and could cause a NULL ptr deref.
Introduced by commit a51d9eaa ("fs: add link restriction audit reporting").
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/audit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/audit.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 4d0ceede3319..40414e9143db 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1440,6 +1440,8 @@ void audit_log_link_denied(const char *operation, struct path *link) ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_ANOM_LINK); + if (!ab) + return; audit_log_format(ab, "op=%s action=denied", operation); audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", current->pid); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, current->comm); |