Re: [PATCH 1/3] selinux: return -ENOMEM when memory allocationfails

From: James Morris
Date: Thu Jan 20 2011 - 19:07:22 EST


On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> index c3f845c..a533732 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int cond_init_bool_indexes(struct policydb *p)
> p->bool_val_to_struct = (struct cond_bool_datum **)
> kmalloc(p->p_bools.nprim * sizeof(struct cond_bool_datum *), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!p->bool_val_to_struct)
> - return -1;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> return 0;

The caller has already set -ENOMEM, so the code should probably be updated
there, too, e.g.

rc = cond_init_bool_indexes();
if (rc)
goto out;



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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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