From: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] apparmor: Use struct_size() helper in kzalloc()
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 16:37:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c851990-45d7-a0ff-e398-92ecb2454242@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210929220526.GA355783@embeddedor>
On 9/29/21 3:05 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version,
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows that,
> in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
nice
I will pull this into my tree
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
> ---
> security/apparmor/label.c | 3 +--
> security/apparmor/policy.c | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/label.c b/security/apparmor/label.c
> index 6222fdfebe4e..0b0265da1926 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/label.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/label.c
> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ struct aa_label *aa_label_alloc(int size, struct aa_proxy *proxy, gfp_t gfp)
> AA_BUG(size < 1);
>
> /* + 1 for null terminator entry on vec */
> - new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new) + sizeof(struct aa_profile *) * (size + 1),
> - gfp);
> + new = kzalloc(struct_size(new, vec, size + 1), gfp);
> AA_DEBUG("%s (%p)\n", __func__, new);
> if (!new)
> goto fail;
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy.c b/security/apparmor/policy.c
> index 17191a9eae41..5827dbdfbfca 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/policy.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/policy.c
> @@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ struct aa_profile *aa_alloc_profile(const char *hname, struct aa_proxy *proxy,
> struct aa_profile *profile;
>
> /* freed by free_profile - usually through aa_put_profile */
> - profile = kzalloc(sizeof(*profile) + sizeof(struct aa_profile *) * 2,
> - gfp);
> + profile = kzalloc(struct_size(profile, label.vec, 2), gfp);
> if (!profile)
> return NULL;
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-01 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 22:05 [PATCH][next] apparmor: Use struct_size() helper in kzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-01 23:37 ` John Johansen [this message]
2021-10-01 23:49 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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