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Commit 1f578172 authored by Tetsuo Handa's avatar Tetsuo Handa Committed by Eric W. Biederman
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commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at xattr_getsecurity() [1],
for cap_inode_getsecurity() is returning sizeof(struct vfs_cap_data) when
memory allocation failed. Return -ENOMEM if memory allocation failed.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a55ba438506fe68649a5f50d2d82d56b365e0107



Signed-off-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Fixes: 8db6c34f ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzbot+9369930ca44f29e60e2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent 2236d4d3
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