From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
The pointer fs_ns is assigned from inode->i_ib->s_user_ns before
a null pointer check on inode, hence if inode is actually null we
will get a null pointer dereference on this assignment. Fix this
by only dereferencing inode after the null pointer check on
inode.
Detected by CoverityScan CID#1455328 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
---
security/commoncap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index c25e0d27537f..fc46f5b85251 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -585,13 +585,14 @@ int get_vfs_caps_from_disk(const struct dentry *dentry,
struct cpu_vfs_cap_data
struct vfs_ns_cap_data data, *nscaps = &data;
struct vfs_cap_data *caps = (struct vfs_cap_data *) &data;
kuid_t rootkuid;
- struct user_namespace *fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
+ struct user_namespace *fs_ns;
memset(cpu_caps, 0, sizeof(struct cpu_vfs_cap_data));
if (!inode)
return -ENODATA;
+ fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
size = __vfs_getxattr((struct dentry *)dentry, inode,
XATTR_NAME_CAPS, &data, XATTR_CAPS_SZ);
if (size == -ENODATA || size == -EOPNOTSUPP)
--
2.14.1
