2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Etienne Basset upstream commit: 4303154e86597885bc3cbc178a48ccbc8213875f this patch fix an oops in smack when setting a size 0 SMACK64 xattr eg attr -S -s SMACK64 -V '' somefile This oops because smk_import_entry treats a 0 length as SMK_MAXLEN Signed-off-by: Etienne Basset Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -604,6 +604,8 @@ static int smack_inode_setxattr(struct d strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPOUT) == 0) { if (!capable(CAP_MAC_ADMIN)) rc = -EPERM; + if (size == 0) + rc = -EINVAL; } else rc = cap_inode_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags); @@ -1360,7 +1362,7 @@ static int smack_inode_setsecurity(struc struct socket *sock; int rc = 0; - if (value == NULL || size > SMK_LABELLEN) + if (value == NULL || size > SMK_LABELLEN || size == 0) return -EACCES; sp = smk_import(value, size); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/