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authorRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>2018-02-21 04:30:07 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-30 07:50:49 +0200
commit85e924bb3309d59ffee2e0c23c920c74826ba509 (patch)
treeb65a84af17a620c6944a97f0ca9007f3aefdcc48 /kernel
parentb6bfbdfe0215172a232ef5b486f40d4ab8315dc4 (diff)
audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference
[ Upstream commit 23138ead270045f1b3e912e667967b6094244999 ] If there is a memory allocation error when trying to change an audit kernel feature value, the ignored allocation error will trigger a NULL pointer dereference oops on subsequent use of that pointer. Return instead. Passes audit-testsuite. See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/76 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> [PM: not necessary (other funcs check for NULL), but a good practice] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index da4e7c0e36f7..3461a3d874fe 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -742,6 +742,8 @@ static void audit_log_feature_change(int which, u32 old_feature, u32 new_feature
return;
ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE);
+ if (!ab)
+ return;
audit_log_task_info(ab, current);
audit_log_format(ab, " feature=%s old=%u new=%u old_lock=%u new_lock=%u res=%d",
audit_feature_names[which], !!old_feature, !!new_feature,