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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
	James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: check for failed kmalloc in security_sid_to_context
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:07:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060427020740.GA23112@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)

Check for NULL kmalloc return value before writing to it.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

---

 security/selinux/ss/services.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

3d9cf05c7fa2578f87648dd0862e70cf7959ad7a
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 6149248..20b1065 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -593,6 +593,10 @@ int security_sid_to_context(u32 sid, cha
 
 			*scontext_len = strlen(initial_sid_to_string[sid]) + 1;
 			scontextp = kmalloc(*scontext_len,GFP_ATOMIC);
+			if (!scontextp) {
+				rc = -ENOMEM;
+				goto out;
+			}
 			strcpy(scontextp, initial_sid_to_string[sid]);
 			*scontext = scontextp;
 			goto out;
-- 
1.3.0


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27  2:07 Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-04-27  3:25 ` James Morris
2006-05-08 17:46   ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-08 18:21     ` Stephen Smalley

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