From 76ba89c76f2c74e208d93a9e7c698e39eeb3b85c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 18:50:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] commoncap: move assignment of fs_ns to avoid null pointer dereference 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- 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)