[PATCH] apparmor: Replace memcpy + NUL termination with kmemdup_nul in do_setattr
Thorsten Blum
thorsten.blum at linux.dev
Sun Jan 25 21:00:15 UTC 2026
Use kmemdup_nul() to copy 'value' instead of using memcpy() followed by
a manual NUL termination. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
---
security/apparmor/lsm.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index a87cd60ed206..98b92af5890e 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -866,12 +866,9 @@ static int do_setattr(u64 attr, void *value, size_t size)
/* AppArmor requires that the buffer must be null terminated atm */
if (args[size - 1] != '\0') {
- /* null terminate */
- largs = args = kmalloc(size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ largs = args = kmemdup_nul(value, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!args)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(args, value, size);
- args[size] = '\0';
}
error = -EINVAL;
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
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