On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:46 PM <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Clang static analysis reports this double free error
>
> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c:139:2: warning: Attempt to free released memory [unix.Malloc]
> kfree(node->expr.nodes);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> When cond_read_node fails, it calls cond_node_destroy which frees the
> node but does not poison the entry in the node list. So when it
> returns to its caller cond_read_list, cond_read_list deletes the
> partial list. The latest entry in the list will be deleted twice.
>
> So instead of freeing the node in cond_read_node, let list freeing in
> code_read_list handle the freeing the problem node along with all of the
> earlier nodes.
>
> Because cond_read_node no longer does any error handling, the goto's
> the error case are redundant. Instead just return the error code.
>
> Fixes: 60abd3181db2 ("selinux: convert cond_list to array")
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
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Ondrej Mosnacek
Software Engineer, Platform Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.
