[ 55/76] fs: handle failed audit_log_start properly

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-19T02:56:50Z

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

commit d1c7d97ad58836affde6e39980b96527510b572e upstream.

audit_log_start() may return NULL, this is unchecked by the caller in
audit_log_link_denied() and could cause a NULL ptr deref.

Introduced by commit a51d9eaa ("fs: add link restriction audit reporting").

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/audit.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1466,6 +1466,8 @@ void audit_log_link_denied(const char *o

ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL,
AUDIT_ANOM_LINK);
+ if (!ab)
+ return;
audit_log_format(ab, "op=%s action=denied", operation);
audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", current->pid);
audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, current->comm);