linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Fix for Integrity subsystem null pointer deref

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1410291450290.28213@namei.org>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:55:34 +1100 (AEDT)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] Fix for Integrity subsystem null pointer deref

These changes fix a bug in xattr handling, where the evm and ima 
inode_setxattr() functions do not check for empty xattrs being passed from 
userspace (leading to user-triggerable null pointer dereferences).

Please pull.


The following changes since commit 9f76628da20f96a179ca62b504886f99ecc29223:

  Merge branch 'for-3.18' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux (2014-10-28 13:32:06 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git for-linus

Dmitry Kasatkin (2):
      ima: check xattr value length and type in the ima_inode_setxattr()
      evm: check xattr value length and type in evm_inode_setxattr()

James Morris (1):
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../zohar/linux-integrity into for-linus

 security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c     |    9 ++++++---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c |    2 ++
 security/integrity/integrity.h        |    1 +
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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