[PATCH 085/190] Revert "audit: fix a memory leak bug"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21T13:06:36Z

This reverts commit 70c4cf17e445264453bc5323db3e50aa0ac9e81f.

Commits from @umn.edu addresses have been found to be submitted in "bad
faith" to try to test the kernel community's ability to review "known
malicious" changes. The result of these submissions can be found in a
paper published at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
entitled, "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing
Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits" written by Qiushi Wu (University
of Minnesota) and Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota).

Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from
the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if
they actually are a valid fix. Until that work is complete, remove this
change to ensure that no problems are being introduced into the
codebase.

Cc: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/auditfilter.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index 333b3bcfc545..19f908b96000 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -1125,24 +1125,22 @@ int audit_rule_change(int type, int seq, void *data, size_t datasz)
int err = 0;
struct audit_entry *entry;

+ entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
+ if (IS_ERR(entry))
+ return PTR_ERR(entry);
+
switch (type) {
case AUDIT_ADD_RULE:
- entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
- if (IS_ERR(entry))
- return PTR_ERR(entry);
err = audit_add_rule(entry);
audit_log_rule_change("add_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
break;
case AUDIT_DEL_RULE:
- entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
- if (IS_ERR(entry))
- return PTR_ERR(entry);
err = audit_del_rule(entry);
audit_log_rule_change("remove_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
break;
default:
+ err = -EINVAL;
WARN_ON(1);
- return -EINVAL;
}

if (err || type == AUDIT_DEL_RULE) {
--
2.31.1