If the user sets xattr->name[0] to NUL then we would read one character before the start of the array. This bug seems harmless as far as I can see but perhaps it would trigger a warning in KASAN. Fixes: fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of verified xattrs") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The user can pass a zeroed buffer to memdup_user_nul() so we can't rely on "count" to test this. diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c index a7a0a1acae99..94c739180a0b 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static ssize_t evm_write_xattrs(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, /* Remove any trailing newline */ len = strlen(xattr->name); - if (xattr->name[len-1] == '\n') + if (len && xattr->name[len-1] == '\n') xattr->name[len-1] = '\0'; if (strcmp(xattr->name, ".") == 0) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html