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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-01-11 14:32:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-01-11 14:54:55 -0800
commit0644ec0cc8a33fb654e348897ad7684e22a4b5d8 (patch)
tree95a0532a89fdd148593c4bd52faa055d308e3380 /kernel/audit.c
parent7b9205bd775afc4439ed86d617f9042ee9e76a71 (diff)
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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.c4
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()),