>From 904d07a6eb014f3df0c5a1ebfcfd4323276a9a76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:15:16 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.
syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at xattr_getsecurity() [1], for cap_inode_getsecurity() is returning sizeof(struct vfs_cap_data) when memory allocation failed. Return -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a55ba438506fe68649a5f50d2d82d56b365e0107 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc8e06 ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities") Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+9369930ca44f29e60...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+ Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> --- security/commoncap.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 48620c9..1ce701f 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer, magic |= VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE; memcpy(&cap->data, &nscap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32); cap->magic_etc = cpu_to_le32(magic); + } else { + size = -ENOMEM; } } kfree(tmpbuf); -- 1.8.3.1
