[PATCH] security: check for kstrdup() failure in lsm_append()

Eric Biggers ebiggers at google.com
Tue Jul 17 17:36:04 UTC 2018


lsm_append() should return -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed.

Fixes: d69dece5f5b6 ("LSM: Add /sys/kernel/security/lsm")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 security/security.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 03e98be76d58..259ff593d543 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ static int lsm_append(char *new, char **result)
 
 	if (*result == NULL) {
 		*result = kstrdup(new, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (*result == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
 	} else {
 		/* Check if it is the last registered name */
 		if (match_last_lsm(*result, new))
-- 
2.18.0.203.gfac676dfb9-goog

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