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Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 15:43:35 +0200
From: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: SElinux list <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>,
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
Austin Kim <austin.kim@....com>,
Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
Yang Li <yang.lee@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] selinux: drop unnecessary NULL check
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 17:09, Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 18:31, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 6:22 AM Christian Göttsche
> > <cgzones@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Commit e3489f8974e1 ("selinux: kill selinux_sb_get_mnt_opts()")
> > > introduced a NULL check on the context after a successful call to
> > > security_sid_to_context(). This is on the one hand redundant after
> > > checking for success and on the other hand insufficient on an actual
> > > NULL pointer, since the context is passed to seq_escape() leading to a
> > > call of strlen() on it.
> > >
> > > Reported by Clang analyzer:
> > >
> > > In file included from security/selinux/hooks.c:28:
> > > In file included from ./include/linux/tracehook.h:50:
> > > In file included from ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:13:
> > > In file included from ./include/linux/cgroup.h:18:
> > > ./include/linux/seq_file.h:136:25: warning: Null pointer passed as 1st argument to string length function [unix.cstring.NullArg]
> > > seq_escape_mem(m, src, strlen(src), flags, esc);
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > I'm guessing there was more to this trace for this instance of this warning?
>
> Yes, complete output appended at the end.
>
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>
> > > ---
> > > security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > index 1e69f88eb326..ac802b99d36c 100644
> > > --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static int show_sid(struct seq_file *m, u32 sid)
> > > rc = security_sid_to_context(&selinux_state, sid,
> > > &context, &len);
> > > if (!rc) {
> >
> > ^ perhaps changing this condition to:
> >
> > if (!rc && context) {
> >
> > It might be nice to retain the null ptr check should the semantics of
> > security_sid_to_context ever change.
>
> If I read the implementation of security_sid_to_context() and its callees
> correctly it should never return 0 (success) and not have populated its 3
> argument, unless the passed pointer was zero, which by passing the address
> of a stack variable - &context - is not the case).
>
Kindly ping;
is my analysis correct that after
rc = security_sid_to_context(&selinux_state, sid,
&context, &len);
there is no possibility that rc is 0 AND context is NULL?
> >
> > > - bool has_comma = context && strchr(context, ',');
> > > + bool has_comma = strchr(context, ',');
> > >
> > > seq_putc(m, '=');
> > > if (has_comma)
> > > --
> > > 2.35.1
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > ~Nick Desaulniers
>
>
> clang-tidy report:
>
> ./include/linux/seq_file.h:136:25: warning: Null pointer passed as 1st
> argument to string length function
> [clang-analyzer-unix.cstring.NullArg]
> seq_escape_mem(m, src, strlen(src), flags, esc);
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1041:6: note: Assuming the condition is false
> if (!(sbsec->flags & SE_SBINITIALIZED))
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1041:2: note: Taking false branch
> if (!(sbsec->flags & SE_SBINITIALIZED))
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1044:6: note: Assuming the condition is false
> if (!selinux_initialized(&selinux_state))
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1044:2: note: Taking false branch
> if (!selinux_initialized(&selinux_state))
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1047:6: note: Assuming the condition is true
> if (sbsec->flags & FSCONTEXT_MNT) {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1047:2: note: Taking true branch
> if (sbsec->flags & FSCONTEXT_MNT) {
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1050:8: note: Calling 'show_sid'
> rc = show_sid(m, sbsec->sid);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1020:7: note: Value assigned to 'context'
> rc = security_sid_to_context(&selinux_state, sid,
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1022:6: note: Assuming 'rc' is 0
> if (!rc) {
> ^~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1022:2: note: Taking true branch
> if (!rc) {
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1023:20: note: Assuming 'context' is null
> bool has_comma = context && strchr(context, ',');
> ^~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1023:28: note: Left side of '&&' is false
> bool has_comma = context && strchr(context, ',');
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1026:7: note: 'has_comma' is false
> if (has_comma)
> ^~~~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1026:3: note: Taking false branch
> if (has_comma)
> ^
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1028:17: note: Passing null pointer value
> via 2nd parameter 's'
> seq_escape(m, context, "\"\n\\");
> ^~~~~~~
> ./security/selinux/hooks.c:1028:3: note: Calling 'seq_escape'
> seq_escape(m, context, "\"\n\\");
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ././include/linux/seq_file.h:152:20: note: Passing null pointer value
> via 2nd parameter 'src'
> seq_escape_str(m, s, ESCAPE_OCTAL, esc);
> ^
> ././include/linux/seq_file.h:152:2: note: Calling 'seq_escape_str'
> seq_escape_str(m, s, ESCAPE_OCTAL, esc);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ././include/linux/seq_file.h:136:25: note: Null pointer passed as 1st
> argument to string length function
> seq_escape_mem(m, src, strlen(src), flags, esc);
> ^ ~~~
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