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* [patch] tomoyo: fix potential use after free
@ 2010-03-13 11:14 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-03-13 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kentaro Takeda
  Cc: Tetsuo Handa, James Morris, Serge Hallyn, Toshiharu Harada,
	linux-security-module, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

The original code returns a freed pointer.  This function is expected to 
return NULL on errors.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.c b/security/tomoyo/common.c
index ff51f10..ef89947 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/common.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/common.c
@@ -886,6 +886,7 @@ static struct tomoyo_profile *tomoyo_find_or_assign_new_profile(const unsigned
 	ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tomoyo_memory_ok(ptr)) {
 		kfree(ptr);
+		ptr = NULL;
 		goto ok;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < TOMOYO_MAX_CONTROL_INDEX; i++)

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