From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
[ Upstream commit 0a6b29230ec336189bab32498df3f06c8a6944d8 ]
We should return error pointers in this function. Returning NULL results in a NULL dereference in the caller.
Fixes: 73688d1ed0b8 ("apparmor: refactor prepare_ns() and make usable from different views") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com --- security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c index b0f9dc3f765a..1a7cec5d9cac 100644 --- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static struct aa_ns *__aa_create_ns(struct aa_ns *parent, const char *name,
ns = alloc_ns(parent->base.hname, name); if (!ns) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ns->level = parent->level + 1; mutex_lock_nested(&ns->lock, ns->level); error = __aafs_ns_mkdir(ns, ns_subns_dir(parent), name, dir);