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authorChristian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>2024-03-28 20:16:58 +0100
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2024-04-02 05:32:35 +0200
commit37801a36b4d68892ce807264f784d818f8d0d39b (patch)
treef30921a08fef5c3237716ba481a00d51fb2e03db /security/selinux
parentLinux 6.9-rc1 (diff)
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selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure
In case kern_mount() fails and returns an error pointer return in the error branch instead of continuing and dereferencing the error pointer. While on it drop the never read static variable selinuxfs_mount. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0619f0f5e36f ("selinux: wrap selinuxfs state") Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/selinuxfs.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index 0619a1cbbfbe..074d6c2714eb 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -2123,7 +2123,6 @@ static struct file_system_type sel_fs_type = {
.kill_sb = sel_kill_sb,
};
-static struct vfsmount *selinuxfs_mount __ro_after_init;
struct path selinux_null __ro_after_init;
static int __init init_sel_fs(void)
@@ -2145,18 +2144,21 @@ static int __init init_sel_fs(void)
return err;
}
- selinux_null.mnt = selinuxfs_mount = kern_mount(&sel_fs_type);
- if (IS_ERR(selinuxfs_mount)) {
+ selinux_null.mnt = kern_mount(&sel_fs_type);
+ if (IS_ERR(selinux_null.mnt)) {
pr_err("selinuxfs: could not mount!\n");
- err = PTR_ERR(selinuxfs_mount);
- selinuxfs_mount = NULL;
+ err = PTR_ERR(selinux_null.mnt);
+ selinux_null.mnt = NULL;
+ return err;
}
+
selinux_null.dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(selinux_null.mnt->mnt_root,
&null_name);
if (IS_ERR(selinux_null.dentry)) {
pr_err("selinuxfs: could not lookup null!\n");
err = PTR_ERR(selinux_null.dentry);
selinux_null.dentry = NULL;
+ return err;
}
return err;