[PATCH] fix deadlock in audit_log_task_context() GFP_KERNEL allocations in non-blocking context; fixed by killing an idiotic use of security_getprocattr(). Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 3599558..628c7ac 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -739,28 +739,26 @@ void audit_log_task_context(struct audit_buffer *ab) { char *ctx = NULL; - ssize_t len = 0; + unsigned len; + int error; + u32 sid; - len = security_getprocattr(current, "current", NULL, 0); - if (len < 0) { - if (len != -EINVAL) + selinux_get_task_sid(current, &sid); + if (!sid) + return; + + error = selinux_sid_to_string(sid, &ctx, &len); + if (error) { + if (error != -EINVAL) goto error_path; return; } - ctx = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ctx) - goto error_path; - - len = security_getprocattr(current, "current", ctx, len); - if (len < 0 ) - goto error_path; - audit_log_format(ab, " subj=%s", ctx); + kfree(ctx); return; error_path: - kfree(ctx); audit_panic("error in audit_log_task_context"); return; }