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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2007-07-28 00:55:18 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-28 19:42:22 -0700
commit040b3a2df2dd26c3e401823f3b0ce3fe99e966c5 (patch)
treedbf88e0023db86669e775ed2ab4c5fb55186ffe0 /kernel
parent0af3678f7c5872836d1cc8d7c659abd62c3c5ae7 (diff)
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audit: fix two bugs in the new execve audit code
copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied, hence 0 is the expected output. axi->mm might not be valid anymore when not equal to current->mm, do not dereference before checking that - thanks to Al for spotting that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index bde1124d5908..a777d3761416 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -824,12 +824,14 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_buffer *ab,
{
int i;
long len, ret;
- const char __user *p = (const char __user *)axi->mm->arg_start;
+ const char __user *p;
char *buf;
if (axi->mm != current->mm)
return; /* execve failed, no additional info */
+ p = (const char __user *)axi->mm->arg_start;
+
for (i = 0; i < axi->argc; i++, p += len) {
len = strnlen_user(p, MAX_ARG_STRLEN);
/*
@@ -855,7 +857,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_buffer *ab,
* copied them here, and the mm hasn't been exposed to user-
* space yet.
*/
- if (!ret) {
+ if (ret) {
WARN_ON(1);
send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
}