Re: [next] Null pointer dereference in mls_compute_sid()

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I'd still be concerned about why a class value of 0 is getting passed
from userspace.  Bug in systemd or libselinux?

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 09:44 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> It should be fixed in today's linux-next!  I'm so sorry about that!
> 
> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 23:12 +0100, Martin Nyhus wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while running next-20120321 the class passed in to mls_compute_sid()
> > (tclass) is sometimes 0 which leads to a read from
> > policydb.class_val_to_struct[-1] causing a null pointer dereference
> > when cladatum is used (at mls.c:535).
> > 
> > The crash happens on every boot, just after mounting the filesystem.
> > 
> > Calltrace:
> > security_compute_sid.part.7
> > security_compute_sid
> > security_transition_sid_user
> > ? security_context_to_sid
> > sel_write_create
> > ? might_fault
> > ? _raw_spin_unlock
> > ? sel_write_member
> > selinux_transaction_write
> > vfs_write
> > sys_write
> > system_call_fastpath
> > 
> > 
> > 	Martin Nyhus
> 
> 
> 
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