From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: syzbot+9369930ca44f29e60e2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
serge@hallyn.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in xattr_getsecurity
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:00:44 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201804110600.CCF73450.FFOOQtSFOLHMVJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9irw2ad.fsf@xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> writes:
>
> > From 904d07a6eb014f3df0c5a1ebfcfd4323276a9a76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:15:16 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH] commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.
> >
> > syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at xattr_getsecurity() [1],
> > for cap_inode_getsecurity() is returning sizeof(struct vfs_cap_data) when
> > memory allocation failed. Return -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed.
> >
> > [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a55ba438506fe68649a5f50d2d82d56b365e0107
>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> Tetsuo I can pick this up, or do you have preferred path for getting
> this change merged?
I don't have preferred path. You can pick this up. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 8:36 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in xattr_getsecurity syzbot
2018-04-10 10:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-10 14:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-10 14:48 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-04-10 21:00 ` Tetsuo Handa [this message]
2018-04-25 11:01 ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-10 23:20 ` James Morris
2018-04-10 14:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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