[PATCH v2] audit: fix potential null dereference 'context->module.name'

Yi Wang wang.yi59 at zte.com.cn
Wed Jul 25 02:26:19 UTC 2018


The variable 'context->module.name' may be null pointer when
kmalloc return null, so it's better to check it before using
to avoid null dereference.
Another one more thing this patch does is using kstrdup instead
of (kmalloc + strcpy), and signal a lost record via audit_log_lost.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59 at zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2 at zte.com.cn>
---
v2: use kstrdup instead of kmalloc + strcpy, and signal a lost
record. Thanks to Eric and Paul.

 kernel/auditsc.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index e80459f..713386a 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1272,8 +1272,12 @@ static void show_special(struct audit_context *context, int *call_panic)
 		break;
 	case AUDIT_KERN_MODULE:
 		audit_log_format(ab, "name=");
-		audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, context->module.name);
-		kfree(context->module.name);
+		if (context->module.name) {
+			audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, context->module.name);
+			kfree(context->module.name);
+		} else
+			audit_log_format(ab, "(null)");
+
 		break;
 	}
 	audit_log_end(ab);
@@ -2408,8 +2412,9 @@ void __audit_log_kern_module(char *name)
 {
 	struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;
 
-	context->module.name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	strcpy(context->module.name, name);
+	context->module.name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!context->module.name)
+		audit_log_lost("out of memory in __audit_log_kern_module");
 	context->type = AUDIT_KERN_MODULE;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.3.1




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