[PATCH] lsm: handle the NULL buffer case in lsm_fill_user_ctx()

[Paul Moore]

Passing a NULL buffer into the lsm_get_self_attr() syscall is a valid
way to quickly determine the minimum size of the buffer needed to for
the syscall to return all of the LSM attributes to the caller.
Unfortunately we/I broke that behavior in commit d7cf3412a9f6
("lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()")
such that it returned an error to the caller; this patch restores the
original desired behavior of using the NULL buffer as a quick way to
correctly size the attribute buffer.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d7cf3412a9f6 ("lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()")
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
---
 security/security.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 5b2e0a15377d..7e118858b545 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -780,7 +780,9 @@ static int lsm_superblock_alloc(struct super_block *sb)
  * @id: LSM id
  * @flags: LSM defined flags
  *
- * Fill all of the fields in a userspace lsm_ctx structure.
+ * Fill all of the fields in a userspace lsm_ctx structure.  If @uctx is NULL
+ * simply calculate the required size to output via @utc_len and return
+ * success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -E2BIG if userspace buffer is not large enough,
  * -EFAULT on a copyout error, -ENOMEM if memory can't be allocated.
@@ -799,6 +801,10 @@ int lsm_fill_user_ctx(struct lsm_ctx __user *uctx, u32 *uctx_len,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/* no buffer - return success/0 and set @uctx_len to the req size */
+	if (!uctx)
+		goto out;
+
 	nctx = kzalloc(nctx_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (nctx == NULL) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.44.0