SELinux: NULL terminate al contexts from disk
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:50:05 +0000 (14:50 -0500)
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:22:30 +0000 (09:22 +1100)
When a context is pulled in from disk we don't know that it is null
terminated.  This patch forecebly null terminates contexts when we pull
them from disk.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
security/selinux/hooks.c

index aebcfad..309648c 100644 (file)
@@ -1270,12 +1270,13 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
                }
 
                len = INITCONTEXTLEN;
-               context = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+               context = kmalloc(len+1, GFP_NOFS);
                if (!context) {
                        rc = -ENOMEM;
                        dput(dentry);
                        goto out_unlock;
                }
+               context[len] = '\0';
                rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,
                                           context, len);
                if (rc == -ERANGE) {
@@ -1288,12 +1289,13 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
                        }
                        kfree(context);
                        len = rc;
-                       context = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+                       context = kmalloc(len+1, GFP_NOFS);
                        if (!context) {
                                rc = -ENOMEM;
                                dput(dentry);
                                goto out_unlock;
                        }
+                       context[len] = '\0';
                        rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry,
                                                   XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,
                                                   context, len);