From: Huaxin Lu <luhuaxin1@xxxxxxxxxx> In restore_template_fmt, when kstrdup fails, a non-NULL value will still be returned, which causes a NULL pointer access in template_desc_init_fields. Co-authored-by: Jiaming Li <lijiaming30@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Huaxin Lu <luhuaxin1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c index 07398f5..f81d4b2 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c @@ -295,8 +295,11 @@ static struct ima_template_desc *restore_template_fmt(char *template_name) template_desc->name = ""; template_desc->fmt = kstrdup(template_name, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!template_desc->fmt) + if (!template_desc->fmt) { + kfree(template_desc); + template_desc = NULL; goto out; + } spin_lock(&template_list); list_add_tail_rcu(&template_desc->list, &defined_templates); -- 2.27.0