From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , John Johansen , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.18 052/197] apparmor: fix an error code in __aa_create_ns() Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:30:01 +0200 Message-Id: <20180913131843.615114388@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180913131841.568116777@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180913131841.568116777@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter [ Upstream commit 0a6b29230ec336189bab32498df3f06c8a6944d8 ] We should return error pointers in this function. Returning NULL results in a NULL dereference in the caller. Fixes: 73688d1ed0b8 ("apparmor: refactor prepare_ns() and make usable from different views") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static struct aa_ns *__aa_create_ns(stru ns = alloc_ns(parent->base.hname, name); if (!ns) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ns->level = parent->level + 1; mutex_lock_nested(&ns->lock, ns->level); error = __aafs_ns_mkdir(ns, ns_subns_dir(parent), name, dir);