Re: [PATCH] tomoyo: Avoid potential null pointer access

[Tetsuo Handa]

Hello, Zheng.

Thank you for a patch, but I won't apply this patch.
Expected behavior is that tomoyo_warn_oom() is called
if tomoyo_memory_ok() is called with entry == NULL.

Adding __GFP_NOWARN might be OK, but returning without tomoyo_warn_oom() is NG.

On 2020/11/25 21:10, Zheng Zengkai wrote:
> Calls to kzalloc() should be null-checked in order to avoid
> any potential failures or unnecessary code execution.
> Fix this by adding null checks for _entry_ right after allocation.
> 
> Fixes: 57c2590fb7fd ("TOMOYO: Update profile structure")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nacked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  security/tomoyo/common.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.c b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> index 4bee32bfe16d..99b4fafcb100 100644
> --- a/security/tomoyo/common.c
> +++ b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> @@ -499,6 +499,8 @@ static struct tomoyo_profile *tomoyo_assign_profile
>  	if (ptr)
>  		return ptr;
>  	entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_NOFS);
> +	if (!entry)
> +		return NULL;
>  	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&tomoyo_policy_lock))
>  		goto out;
>  	ptr = ns->profile_ptr[profile];
>