[PATCH] apparmor: Fix checking address of an array in accum_label_info()

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Fri Jan 24 21:59:36 UTC 2025


On 1/20/25 05:12, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> clang warns:
> 
>    security/apparmor/label.c:206:15: error: address of array 'new->vec' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Werror,-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
>      206 |         AA_BUG(!new->vec);
>          |                ~~~~~~^~~
> 
> The address of this array can never be NULL because it is not at the
> beginning of a structure. Convert the assertion to check that the new
> pointer is not NULL.
> 
> Fixes: de4754c801f4 ("apparmor: carry mediation check on label")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501191802.bDp2voTJ-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>

I have pulled this into my tree

> ---
>   security/apparmor/label.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/label.c b/security/apparmor/label.c
> index afded9996f61..79be2d3d604b 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/label.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/label.c
> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void accum_label_info(struct aa_label *new)
>   	long u = FLAG_UNCONFINED;
>   	int i;
>   
> -	AA_BUG(!new->vec);
> +	AA_BUG(!new);
>   
>   	/* size == 1 is a profile and flags must be set as part of creation */
>   	if (new->size == 1)
> 
> ---
> base-commit: e6b087676954e36a7b1ed51249362bb499f8c1c2
> change-id: 20250120-apparmor-pointer-bool-conversion-label-7c1027964c7f
> 
> Best regards,




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