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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>,
	chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [-mm patch] slm_set_taskperm(): remove horrible error handling code
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:06:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061213130646.GE3851@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061211005807.f220b81c.akpm@osdl.org>

Error handling:
Pass something you memset'ed to 0 to functions that never change it but 
dereference it in dprintk()'s.

This patch removes this broken code - plain Oops'es aren't worse.

As a bonus, this function no longer wastes more than 2 kB stack space.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

 security/slim/slm_main.c |   19 +++----------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.19-mm1/security/slim/slm_main.c.old	2006-12-13 02:58:34.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-mm1/security/slim/slm_main.c	2006-12-13 03:00:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -608,34 +608,21 @@
 			     struct slm_tsec_data *parent_tsec)
 {
 	return enforce_integrity_write(level, name, parent_tsk, parent_tsec);
 }
 
 static int slm_set_taskperm(int mask, struct slm_file_xattr *level,
 			    const unsigned char *name)
 {
-	struct task_struct *parent_tsk = current->parent, new_tsk;
-	struct slm_tsec_data *parent_tsec = NULL, new_tsec;
+	struct task_struct *parent_tsk = current->parent;
+	struct slm_tsec_data *parent_tsec;
 	int rc = 0;
 
-	if (parent_tsk)
-		parent_tsec = parent_tsk->security;
-	else {
-		printk(KERN_INFO
-		       "%s: current pid %d: parent_tsk is null\n",
-		       __FUNCTION__, current->pid);
-		memset(&new_tsk, 0, sizeof(struct task_struct));
-		parent_tsk = &new_tsk;
-	}
-
-	if (!parent_tsec) {
-		memset(&new_tsec, 0, sizeof(struct slm_tsec_data));
-		parent_tsec = &new_tsec;
-	}
+	parent_tsec = parent_tsk->security;
 
 	if (mask & MAY_READ)
 		rc = do_task_may_read(level, name, parent_tsk, parent_tsec);
 	if ((mask & MAY_WRITE) || (mask & MAY_APPEND))
 		rc |= do_task_may_write(level, name, parent_tsk, parent_tsec);
 
 	return rc;
 }


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11  8:58 2.6.19-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-12-11  9:18 ` 2.6.19-mm1 Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 10:41 ` 2.6.19-mm1 Jiri Kosina
2006-12-11 14:28   ` 2.6.19-mm1 Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 14:33     ` 2.6.19-mm1 Jiri Kosina
2006-12-11 15:07       ` 2.6.19-mm1 Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 16:00         ` 2.6.19-mm1 Jiri Kosina
2006-12-11 14:57 ` 2.6.19-mm1: i386: unused idle notifiers added Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 16:42 ` 2.6.19-mm1: missing MTD_UBI* help texts Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 12:37   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-12-11 18:40 ` [-mm patch] make sysrq_always_enabled_setup() static Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 19:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-11 18:40 ` [-mm patch] ACPI: make code static Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 19:06 ` [-mm patch] drivers/uio/: make 3 functions static Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 19:10 ` [RFC: -mm patch] OCFS2: make code static Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 22:26   ` Mark Fasheh
2006-12-13 23:17     ` [-mm patch] fs/ocfs2/dlm/: make functions static Adrian Bunk
2006-12-11 20:46 ` 2.6.19-mm1: drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c: unused variable Adrian Bunk
2006-12-12 11:53   ` Josh Boyer
2006-12-13 12:36   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-12-11 22:41 ` 2.6.19-mm1 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-12-11 22:52   ` 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions) Neil Brown
2006-12-11 23:43     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-12-11 23:54       ` Neil Brown
2006-12-12 20:55         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-12-13  0:53           ` 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions - possible sata_uli problem) Neil Brown
2006-12-13 11:51             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-12-12  5:53 ` 2.6.19-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-12-12  6:06   ` 2.6.19-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-12-12  6:43     ` 2.6.19-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-12-12  8:04       ` 2.6.19-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-12-13  1:17 ` 2.6.19-mm1 Conke Hu
2006-12-13  1:50   ` 2.6.19-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-12-13 13:05 ` 2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error Adrian Bunk
2006-12-14 23:50   ` Greg KH
2006-12-13 13:06 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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