Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in xattr_getsecurity

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 07:13:23PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at xattr_getsecurity() [1],
> for cap_inode_getsecurity() is returning sizeof(struct vfs_cap_data) when
> memory allocation failed. Return -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed.
> 
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a55ba438506fe68649a5f50d2d82d56b365e0107
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc8e06 ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+9369930ca44f29e60e2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

thanks!

-serge

> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
>  security/commoncap.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
> index 48620c9..1ce701f 100644
> --- a/security/commoncap.c
> +++ b/security/commoncap.c
> @@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
>  				magic |= VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE;
>  			memcpy(&cap->data, &nscap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32);
>  			cap->magic_etc = cpu_to_le32(magic);
> +		} else {
> +			size = -ENOMEM;
>  		}
>  	}
>  	kfree(tmpbuf);
> --
> 1.8.3.1