[updated patch 4/7] BSD Secure Levels: memory alloc failure check

From: Michael Halcrow
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 10:12:29 EST


This patch is applies cleanly against the new printk() patch. It adds
a check for a memory allocation failure condition.

Signed off by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-seclvl/security/seclvl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-seclvl.orig/security/seclvl.c 2005-05-20 09:09:03.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-seclvl/security/seclvl.c 2005-05-20 09:09:07.000000000 -0500
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
static int
plaintext_to_sha1(unsigned char *hash, const char *plaintext, int len)
{
- char *pgVirtAddr;
+ char *pg_virt_addr;
struct crypto_tfm *tfm;
struct scatterlist sg[1];
if (len > PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -334,16 +334,21 @@
}
// Just get a new page; don't play around with page boundaries
// and scatterlists.
- pgVirtAddr = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- sg[0].page = virt_to_page(pgVirtAddr);
+ pg_virt_addr = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!pg_virt_addr) {
+ seclvl_printk(0, KERN_ERR, "Out of memory\n" );
+ crypto_free_tfm(tfm);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ sg[0].page = virt_to_page(pg_virt_addr);
sg[0].offset = 0;
sg[0].length = len;
- strncpy(pgVirtAddr, plaintext, len);
+ strncpy(pg_virt_addr, plaintext, len);
crypto_digest_init(tfm);
crypto_digest_update(tfm, sg, 1);
crypto_digest_final(tfm, hash);
crypto_free_tfm(tfm);
- free_page((unsigned long)pgVirtAddr);
+ free_page((unsigned long)pg_virt_addr);
return 0;
}

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