This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selinux-skip-bounded-transition-processing-if-the-policy-isn-t-loaded.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4b14752ec4e0d87126e636384cf37c8dd9df157c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:17:43 -0500 Subject: selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded From: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4b14752ec4e0d87126e636384cf37c8dd9df157c upstream. We can't do anything reasonable in security_bounded_transition() if we don't have a policy loaded, and in fact we could run into problems with some of the code inside expecting a policy. Fix these problems like we do many others in security/selinux/ss/services.c by checking to see if the policy is loaded (ss_initialized) and returning quickly if it isn't. Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/selinux/ss/services.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c +++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c @@ -867,6 +867,9 @@ int security_bounded_transition(u32 old_ int index; int rc; + if (!ss_initialized) + return 0; + read_lock(&policy_rwlock); rc = -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/selinux-skip-bounded-transition-processing-if-the-policy-isn-t-loaded.patch queue-4.15/selinux-ensure-the-context-is-nul-terminated-in-security_context_to_sid_core.patch