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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:34:43 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
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        linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: inode: fix a missing check for
 securityfs_create_file
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Kangjie Lu wrote:

> securityfs_create_file  may fail. The fix checks its status and
> returns the error code upstream if it fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
> 

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-general

> ---
> Return the exact error code upstream.
> ---
>  security/inode.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
> index b7772a9b315e..667f8b15027d 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 PTR_ERR(lsm_dentry);
> +	}
>  #endif
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 

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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>