[Just cc'ing the security tree maintainer, since this will soon be in his tree and is related to a conflict between that tree and the vfs tree.] On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:52:21 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Today's linux-next merge of the integrity tree got a conflict in: > > security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c > > between commit: > > 3bc8f29b149e ("new helper: memdup_user_nul()") > > from the vfs tree and commit: > > 6427e6c71c8b ("ima: ima_write_policy() limit locking") > > from the integrity tree. > > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action > is required). > > -- > Cheers, > Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > diff --cc security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c > index a185b6f2f390,f355231997b4..000000000000 > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c > @@@ -277,13 -272,25 +272,20 @@@ static ssize_t ima_write_policy(struct > if (*ppos != 0) > goto out; > > - result = -ENOMEM; > - data = kmalloc(datalen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!data) > + data = memdup_user_nul(buf, datalen); > + if (IS_ERR(data)) { > + result = PTR_ERR(data); > goto out; > - > - *(data + datalen) = '\0'; > - > - result = -EFAULT; > - if (copy_from_user(data, buf, datalen)) > - goto out_free; > + } > > + result = mutex_lock_interruptible(&ima_write_mutex); > + if (result < 0) > + goto out_free; > result = ima_parse_add_rule(data); > + mutex_unlock(&ima_write_mutex); > + > + out_free: > + kfree(data); > out: > if (result < 0) > valid_policy = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html