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| author | Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> | 2008-03-19 17:00:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-19 18:53:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1d252fb870aa9cd227c4beb1a226ecd434f57f28 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a7b956c01487454b139e1df271518f36ca32285 /security | |
| parent | 4ebf89845bea44a164d1fbb8fa319379ec7132de (diff) | |
| download | linux-1d252fb870aa9cd227c4beb1a226ecd434f57f28.tar.bz2 | |
smack: do not dereference NULL ipc object
In the SYSV ipc msgctl(),semctl(),shmctl() family, if the user passed *_INFO
as the desired operation, no specific object is meant to be controlled and
only system-wide information is returned. This leads to a NULL IPC object in
the LSM hooks if the _INFO flag is given.
Avoid dereferencing this NULL pointer in Smack ipc *ctl() methods.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 0241fd359675..38d707593b31 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static int smack_shm_associate(struct shmid_kernel *shp, int shmflg) */ static int smack_shm_shmctl(struct shmid_kernel *shp, int cmd) { - char *ssp = smack_of_shm(shp); + char *ssp; int may; switch (cmd) { @@ -1532,6 +1532,7 @@ static int smack_shm_shmctl(struct shmid_kernel *shp, int cmd) return -EINVAL; } + ssp = smack_of_shm(shp); return smk_curacc(ssp, may); } @@ -1616,7 +1617,7 @@ static int smack_sem_associate(struct sem_array *sma, int semflg) */ static int smack_sem_semctl(struct sem_array *sma, int cmd) { - char *ssp = smack_of_sem(sma); + char *ssp; int may; switch (cmd) { @@ -1645,6 +1646,7 @@ static int smack_sem_semctl(struct sem_array *sma, int cmd) return -EINVAL; } + ssp = smack_of_sem(sma); return smk_curacc(ssp, may); } @@ -1730,7 +1732,7 @@ static int smack_msg_queue_associate(struct msg_queue *msq, int msqflg) */ static int smack_msg_queue_msgctl(struct msg_queue *msq, int cmd) { - char *msp = smack_of_msq(msq); + char *msp; int may; switch (cmd) { @@ -1752,6 +1754,7 @@ static int smack_msg_queue_msgctl(struct msg_queue *msq, int cmd) return -EINVAL; } + msp = smack_of_msq(msq); return smk_curacc(msp, may); } |