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* [patch 1/1] selinux: fix bug in security_compute_sid
@ 2006-07-25 14:13 Stephen Smalley
  2006-07-25 14:44 ` James Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Smalley @ 2006-07-25 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Venkat Yekkirala, lkml, James Morris, Andrew Morton

From: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@trustedcs.com>

Initializes newcontext sooner to allow for its destruction in all cases.
Please apply for 2.6.18.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

---

 security/selinux/ss/services.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -X /home/sds/dontdiff -rup linux-2.6.18-rc2-git2/security/selinux/ss/services.c linux-2.6.18-rc2-git2-x/security/selinux/ss/services.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2-git2/security/selinux/ss/services.c	2006-07-24 11:25:49.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2-git2-x/security/selinux/ss/services.c	2006-07-25 08:11:58.000000000 -0400
@@ -833,6 +833,8 @@ static int security_compute_sid(u32 ssid
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	context_init(&newcontext);
+
 	POLICY_RDLOCK;
 
 	scontext = sidtab_search(&sidtab, ssid);
@@ -850,8 +852,6 @@ static int security_compute_sid(u32 ssid
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	context_init(&newcontext);
-
 	/* Set the user identity. */
 	switch (specified) {
 	case AVTAB_TRANSITION:

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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* Re: [patch 1/1] selinux: fix bug in security_compute_sid
  2006-07-25 14:13 [patch 1/1] selinux: fix bug in security_compute_sid Stephen Smalley
@ 2006-07-25 14:44 ` James Morris
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: James Morris @ 2006-07-25 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Smalley; +Cc: Venkat Yekkirala, lkml, Andrew Morton

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> From: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@trustedcs.com>
> 
> Initializes newcontext sooner to allow for its destruction in all cases.
> Please apply for 2.6.18.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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