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From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
To:     kjlu@umn.edu
Cc:     pakki001@umn.edu, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
        linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] security: inode: fix a missing check for securityfs_create_file
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:09:01 -0500
Message-Id: <20190315040901.31551-1-kjlu@umn.edu>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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securityfs_create_file  may fail. The fix checks its status and
returns EFAULT upstream if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
---
 security/inode.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index b7772a9b315e..11d9a6bc2161 100644
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -339,6 +339,11 @@ static int __init securityfs_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
 	lsm_dentry = securityfs_create_file("lsm", 0444, NULL, NULL,
 						&lsm_ops);
+	if (IS_ERR(lsm_dentry)) {
+		unregister_filesystem(&fs_type);
+		sysfs_remove_mount_point(kernel_kobj, "security");
+		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 #endif
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.17.1