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Message-Id: <1444926178-28856-1-git-send-email-wuninsu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:22:58 -0400
From: Insu Yun <wuninsu@...il.com>
To: dhowells@...hat.com, james.l.morris@...cle.com, serge@...lyn.com,
keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: taesoo@...ech.edu, yeongjin.jang@...ech.edu, insu@...ech.edu,
Insu Yun <wuninsu@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] keys: correctly check failed allocation for kmemdup
kmemdup return value is saved in 'key->index_key.description', not
'key->descrption' and kmemdup can be failed in memory pressure.
Therefore, key->index_key.description should be checked.
Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu@...il.com>
---
security/keys/key.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
index aee2ec5..c047846 100644
--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type, const char *desc,
key->index_key.desc_len = desclen;
key->index_key.description = kmemdup(desc, desclen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!key->description)
+ if (!key->index_key.description)
goto no_memory_3;
atomic_set(&key->usage, 1);
--
1.9.1
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