[PATCH] Smack: Move request_buffer from stack to smack_audit_data

[Denis Efremov]

request_buffer is required to describe an access type in a string for
the audit. The problem here is that the string is saved on the stack
and then passed by reference to the next function in request field of
the smack_audit_data structure. Referencing variables on a stack
and saving them in external data structures is usually considered
as bad and error-prone practice. Thus, this commit simply moves
the request_buffer from the stack to the stack_audit_data structure
and removes the necessity of stack referencing. strcat calls are
replaced with strlcat calls - a safer analog for strings concatenation
with bounds checking.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov at linux.com>
---
 security/smack/smack.h        |  6 +++++-
 security/smack/smack_access.c | 12 +++---------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/smack/smack.h b/security/smack/smack.h
index 62529f382942..9eeefb865dfd 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack.h
+++ b/security/smack/smack.h
@@ -278,7 +278,11 @@ struct smack_audit_data {
 	const char *function;
 	char *subject;
 	char *object;
-	char *request;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK_BRINGUP
+	char request[SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE + 5];
+#else
+	char request[SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE + 1];
+#endif
 	int result;
 };
 
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_access.c b/security/smack/smack_access.c
index f1c93a7be9ec..99e58d4a9980 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_access.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_access.c
@@ -340,11 +340,6 @@ static void smack_log_callback(struct audit_buffer *ab, void *a)
 void smack_log(char *subject_label, char *object_label, int request,
 	       int result, struct smk_audit_info *ad)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK_BRINGUP
-	char request_buffer[SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE + 5];
-#else
-	char request_buffer[SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE + 1];
-#endif
 	struct smack_audit_data *sad;
 	struct common_audit_data *a = &ad->a;
 
@@ -360,7 +355,7 @@ void smack_log(char *subject_label, char *object_label, int request,
 		sad->function = "unknown";
 
 	/* end preparing the audit data */
-	smack_str_from_perm(request_buffer, request);
+	smack_str_from_perm(sad->request, request);
 	sad->subject = subject_label;
 	sad->object  = object_label;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK_BRINGUP
@@ -371,14 +366,13 @@ void smack_log(char *subject_label, char *object_label, int request,
 	 * the logging policy says to do so.
 	 */
 	if (result == SMACK_UNCONFINED_SUBJECT)
-		strcat(request_buffer, "(US)");
+		strlcat(sad->request, "(US)", sizeof(sad->request));
 	else if (result == SMACK_UNCONFINED_OBJECT)
-		strcat(request_buffer, "(UO)");
+		strlcat(sad->request, "(UO)", sizeof(sad->request));
 
 	if (result > 0)
 		result = 0;
 #endif
-	sad->request = request_buffer;
 	sad->result  = result;
 
 	common_lsm_audit(a, smack_log_callback, NULL);
-- 
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