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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-02-12 14:50:05 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-14 09:22:30 +1100
commit4cb912f1d1447077160ace9ce3b3a10696dd74e5 (patch)
tree916f112de07ca626b0f398a0fc85943f15306146 /security
parent4ba0a8ad63e12a03ae01c039482967cc496b9174 (diff)
downloadlwn-4cb912f1d1447077160ace9ce3b3a10696dd74e5.tar.gz
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SELinux: NULL terminate al contexts from disk
When a context is pulled in from disk we don't know that it is null terminated. This patch forecebly null terminates contexts when we pull them from disk. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/hooks.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index aebcfad5613f..309648c573d8 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1270,12 +1270,13 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
}
len = INITCONTEXTLEN;
- context = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+ context = kmalloc(len+1, GFP_NOFS);
if (!context) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
dput(dentry);
goto out_unlock;
}
+ context[len] = '\0';
rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,
context, len);
if (rc == -ERANGE) {
@@ -1288,12 +1289,13 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
}
kfree(context);
len = rc;
- context = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+ context = kmalloc(len+1, GFP_NOFS);
if (!context) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
dput(dentry);
goto out_unlock;
}
+ context[len] = '\0';
rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry,
XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,
context, len);