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Message-ID: <a5c9075d-fd4d-6ff7-b848-2f78ff871c45@tycho.nsa.gov>
Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:42:52 -0400
From:   Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
To:     Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+a57b2aff60832666fc28@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: fix NULL dereference in policydb_destroy()

On 3/17/19 9:46 AM, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> The conversion to kvmalloc() forgot to account for the possibility that
> p->type_attr_map_array might be null in policydb_destroy().
> 
> Fix this by destroying its contents only if it is not NULL.
> 
> Also make sure ebitmap_init() is called on all entries before
> policydb_destroy() can be called. Right now this is a no-op, because
> both kvcalloc() and ebitmap_init() just zero out the whole struct, but
> let's rather not rely on a specific implementation.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+a57b2aff60832666fc28@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: acdf52d97f82 ("selinux: convert to kvmalloc")
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>

> ---
>   security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 13 +++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> NOTE: This applies directly on top of current Linus' tree, since the
> problematic commit is not present in the selinux/stable-5.1 branch.
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> index 6b576e588725..daecdfb15a9c 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> @@ -828,9 +828,11 @@ void policydb_destroy(struct policydb *p)
>   	hashtab_map(p->range_tr, range_tr_destroy, NULL);
>   	hashtab_destroy(p->range_tr);
>   
> -	for (i = 0; i < p->p_types.nprim; i++)
> -		ebitmap_destroy(&p->type_attr_map_array[i]);
> -	kvfree(p->type_attr_map_array);
> +	if (p->type_attr_map_array) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < p->p_types.nprim; i++)
> +			ebitmap_destroy(&p->type_attr_map_array[i]);
> +		kvfree(p->type_attr_map_array);
> +	}
>   
>   	ebitmap_destroy(&p->filename_trans_ttypes);
>   	ebitmap_destroy(&p->policycaps);
> @@ -2496,10 +2498,13 @@ int policydb_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
>   	if (!p->type_attr_map_array)
>   		goto bad;
>   
> +	/* just in case ebitmap_init() becomes more than just a memset(0): */
> +	for (i = 0; i < p->p_types.nprim; i++)
> +		ebitmap_init(&p->type_attr_map_array[i]);
> +
>   	for (i = 0; i < p->p_types.nprim; i++) {
>   		struct ebitmap *e = &p->type_attr_map_array[i];
>   
> -		ebitmap_init(e);
>   		if (p->policyvers >= POLICYDB_VERSION_AVTAB) {
>   			rc = ebitmap_read(e, fp);
>   			if (rc)
>