From: jmorris@namei.org (James Morris)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in xattr_getsecurity
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:20:45 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1804110920220.9111@namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9irw2ad.fsf@xmission.com>
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> writes:
>
> > From 904d07a6eb014f3df0c5a1ebfcfd4323276a9a76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:15:16 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH] commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.
> >
> > 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
>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> Tetsuo I can pick this up, or do you have preferred path for getting
> this change merged?
>
It can go via my tree if needed, but otherwise:
Acked-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
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[not found] ` <9d192497-8b1e-ca8d-0ed8-b3324ee1e361@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2018-04-10 14:42 ` KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in xattr_getsecurity Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-10 14:48 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-04-10 21:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-25 11:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-10 23:20 ` James Morris [this message]
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