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From: Massimiliano Pellizzer <mpellizzer.dev@gmail.com>
To: john.johansen@canonical.com
Cc: apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@linaro.org,
	Massimiliano Pellizzer <mpellizzer.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: [apparmor][PATCH] apparmor: fix signedness bug in unpack_tags()
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:15:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260210171538.534950-1-mpellizzer.dev@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aYmsYRgv3VClpkjX@stanley.mountain>

Smatch static checker warning:
    security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c:966 unpack_pdb()
    warn: unsigned 'unpack_tags(e, &pdb->tags, info)' is never less than zero.

unpack_tags() is declared with return type size_t (unsigned) but returns
negative errno values on failure. The caller in unpack_pdb() tests the
return with `< 0`, which is always false for an unsigned type, making
error handling dead code. Malformed tag data would be silently accepted
instead of causing a load failure.

Change return type of unpack_tags() from size_t to int to match the
functions's actual semantic.

Fixes: 3d28e2397af7 ("apparmor: add support loading per permission tagging")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <mpellizzer.dev@gmail.com>
---
 security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
index e68adf39771f..dc908e1f5a88 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ static int unpack_tag_headers(struct aa_ext *e, struct aa_tags_struct *tags)
 }
 
 
-static size_t unpack_tags(struct aa_ext *e, struct aa_tags_struct *tags,
+static int unpack_tags(struct aa_ext *e, struct aa_tags_struct *tags,
 	const char **info)
 {
 	int error = -EPROTO;
-- 
2.51.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-02-10 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <caa37f28-a2e8-4e0a-a9ce-a365ce805e4b@stanley.mountain>
2026-02-09  9:44 ` [bug report] apparmor: add support loading per permission tagging Dan Carpenter
2026-02-10 17:15   ` Massimiliano Pellizzer [this message]

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