mainlining shenanigans
067a436b1b
This patch prevents the following oops:
[ 10.771813] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000
[...]
[ 10.779790] RIP: 0010:ima_match_policy+0xf7/0xb80
[...]
[ 10.798576] Call Trace:
[ 10.798993] ? ima_lsm_policy_change+0x2b0/0x2b0
[ 10.799753] ? inode_init_owner+0x1a0/0x1a0
[ 10.800484] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x7a/0xd0
[ 10.801592] ima_must_appraise.part.0+0xb6/0xf0
[ 10.802313] ? ima_fix_xattr.isra.0+0xd0/0xd0
[ 10.803167] ima_must_appraise+0x4f/0x70
[ 10.804004] ima_post_path_mknod+0x2e/0x80
[ 10.804800] do_mknodat+0x396/0x3c0
It occurs when there is a failure during IMA initialization, and
ima_init_policy() is not called. IMA hooks still call ima_match_policy()
but ima_rules is NULL. This patch prevents the crash by directly assigning
the ima_default_policy pointer to ima_rules when ima_rules is defined. This
wouldn't alter the existing behavior, as ima_rules is always set at the end
of ima_init_policy().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.7.x
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| include | ||
| init | ||
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| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
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| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
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| README | ||
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