[PATCH 4.14 17/23] audit: fix potential null dereference context->module.name

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-04T09:04:13Z

From: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>

commit b305f7ed0f4f494ad6f3ef5667501535d5a8fa31 upstream.

The variable 'context->module.name' may be null pointer when
kmalloc return null, so it's better to check it before using
to avoid null dereference.
Another one more thing this patch does is using kstrdup instead
of (kmalloc + strcpy), and signal a lost record via audit_log_lost.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/auditsc.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1274,8 +1274,12 @@ static void show_special(struct audit_co
break;
case AUDIT_KERN_MODULE:
audit_log_format(ab, "name=");
- audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, context->module.name);
- kfree(context->module.name);
+ if (context->module.name) {
+ audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, context->module.name);
+ kfree(context->module.name);
+ } else
+ audit_log_format(ab, "(null)");
+
break;
}
audit_log_end(ab);
@@ -2387,8 +2391,9 @@ void __audit_log_kern_module(char *name)
{
struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;

- context->module.name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- strcpy(context->module.name, name);
+ context->module.name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!context->module.name)
+ audit_log_lost("out of memory in __audit_log_kern_module");
context->type = AUDIT_KERN_MODULE;
}