Re: [patch] tomoyo: fix potential use after free

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Dan Carpenter wrote:

> The original code returns a freed pointer.  This function is expected to 
> return NULL on errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

Oh, thank you.
James, please send this patch to 2.6.34-rc1 .

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.c b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> index ff51f10..ef89947 100644
> --- a/security/tomoyo/common.c
> +++ b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> @@ -886,6 +886,7 @@ static struct tomoyo_profile *tomoyo_find_or_assign_new_profile(const unsigned
>  	ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!tomoyo_memory_ok(ptr)) {
>  		kfree(ptr);
> +		ptr = NULL;
>  		goto ok;
>  	}
>  	for (i = 0; i < TOMOYO_MAX_CONTROL_INDEX; i++)
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