linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] selinux: check return value of sel_make_avc

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:46:00 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>
Cc:     selinux@...r.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] selinux: check return value of sel_make_avc_files

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 6:15 AM Christian Göttsche
<cgzones@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> sel_make_avc_files() might fail and return a negative errno value on
> memory allocation failures. Re-add the check of the return value,
> dropped in 66f8e2f03c02.
>
> Reported by clang-analyzer:
>
>     security/selinux/selinuxfs.c:2129:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>             ret = sel_make_avc_files(dentry);
>             ^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fixes: 66f8e2f03c02 ("selinux: sidtab reverse lookup hash table")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index e4cd7cb856f3..f2f6203e0fff 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -2127,6 +2127,8 @@ static int sel_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
>         }
>
>         ret = sel_make_avc_files(dentry);
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto err;
>
>         dentry = sel_make_dir(sb->s_root, "ss", &fsi->last_ino);
>         if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
> --
> 2.34.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers