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Message-ID: <20221109143834.GB24561@mail.hallyn.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 08:38:34 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, serge@...lyn.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] LSM fixes for v6.1 (#1)
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:22:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:07 AM Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
> >
> > A single patch to the capabilities code to fix a potential memory leak
> > in the xattr allocation error handling. Please apply for v6.1-rcX.
>
> Pulled.
>
> However, I react to the strange test condition. Sure, it's
> pre-existing, but does it really make sense?
>
> It does
>
> + if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf) {
> + size = ret;
> + goto out_free;
> + }
>
> and how the heck can 'tmpbuf' be NULL if vfs_getxattr_alloc() succeeded?
I had to go through the history a bit - the !tmpbuf check was added
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg463010.html
because of a gcc warning. Perhaps there's a better way to tell gcc
that it can't remain NULL if ret was < 0 ?
> I think that's not only impossible in the first place, but if it *was*
> possible, then that
>
> size = ret;
> goto out_free;
>
> would be wrong, because this function would return success even if it
> wasn't successful.
>
> That whole "cast to int, and then cast back to size_t" also smells of
> some serious confusion in the return value handling. It looks to me
> like vfs_getxattr_alloc() fundamentally returns an 'int', not a
> 'ssize_t', just by looking at the ->get function. But it just all
> looks weird.
>
> So this code has all kinds of oddities.
>
> Linus
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