Attempting to free an ERR_PTR will not work. ;) process 'syz-executor210' launched '/dev/fd/3' with NULL argv: empty string added kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:23! Set bprm->argv0 to NULL if it fails to get a string from userspace so that bprm_free() will not try to free an invalid pointer when cleaning up. Reported-by: syzbot+03e1af5c332f7e0eb84b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6729d8d1.050a0220.701a.0017.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 7bdc6fc85c9a ("exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx --- fs/exec.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 79045c1d1608..65448ea609a2 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1522,8 +1522,12 @@ static int bprm_add_fixup_comm(struct linux_binprm *bprm, return 0; bprm->argv0 = strndup_user(p, MAX_ARG_STRLEN); - if (IS_ERR(bprm->argv0)) - return PTR_ERR(bprm->argv0); + if (IS_ERR(bprm->argv0)) { + int rc = PTR_ERR(bprm->argv0); + + bprm->argv0 = NULL; + return rc; + } return 0; } -- 2.34.1