[PATCH] ima: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy

Alex Dewar alex.dewar90 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 21:21:02 UTC 2020


Issue identified with Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90 at gmail.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index b4de33074b37..ea917a787d9d 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 	struct ima_rule_entry *nentry;
 	int i;
 
-	nentry = kmalloc(sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nentry = kmemdup(entry, sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nentry)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 	 * Immutable elements are copied over as pointers and data; only
 	 * lsm rules can change
 	 */
-	memcpy(nentry, entry, sizeof(*nentry));
 	memset(nentry->lsm, 0, sizeof_field(struct ima_rule_entry, lsm));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++) {
-- 
2.28.0



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