ima: make a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()

This patch makes a copy of the 'template_fmt' function argument so that
the latter will not be modified by strsep(), which does the splitting by
replacing the given separator with '\0'.

 IMA: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
 Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000842000
 Oops: 0004 [#1] SMP
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc2-00098-g3ce1217d6cd5 #17
 task: 000000003ffa0000 ti: 000000003ff84000 task.ti: 000000003ff84000
 Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000000000044bf88 (strsep+0x7c/0xa0)
            R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
 Krnl GPRS: 000000000000007c 000000000000007c 000000003ff87d90 0000000000821fd8
            0000000000000000 000000000000007c 0000000000aa37e0 0000000000aa9008
            0000000000000051 0000000000a114d8 0000000100000002 0000000000842bde
            0000000000842bdf 00000000006f97f0 000000000040062c 000000003ff87cf0
 Krnl Code: 000000000044bf7c: a7f4000a           brc     15,44bf90
            000000000044bf80: b90200cc           ltgr    %r12,%r12
           #000000000044bf84: a7840006           brc     8,44bf90
           >000000000044bf88: 9200c000           mvi     0(%r12),0
            000000000044bf8c: 41c0c001           la      %r12,1(%r12)
            000000000044bf90: e3c020000024       stg     %r12,0(%r2)
            000000000044bf96: b904002b           lgr     %r2,%r11
            000000000044bf9a: ebbcf0700004       lmg     %r11,%r12,112(%r15)
 Call Trace:
 ([<00000000004005fe>] ima_init_template+0xa2/0x1bc)
  [<0000000000a7c896>] ima_init+0x7a/0xa8
  [<0000000000a7c938>] init_ima+0x24/0x40
  [<00000000001000e8>] do_one_initcall+0x68/0x128
  [<0000000000a4eb56>] kernel_init_freeable+0x20a/0x2b4
  [<00000000006a1ff4>] kernel_init+0x30/0x178
  [<00000000006b69fe>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
  [<00000000006b69f8>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
  [<000000000044bf42>] strsep+0x36/0xa0

Fixes commit: adf53a7 ima: new templates management mechanism

Changelog v1:
- make template_fmt 'const char *' (reported-by James Morris)
- fix kstrdup memory leak (reported-by James Morris)

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
index 4e5da990630beca2c179894db96fd9f20d31bc17..913e1927f916fccdfc7b0991d0f5795888291bbf 100644 (file)
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static struct ima_template_field *lookup_template_field(const char *field_id)
        return NULL;
 }
 
-static int template_fmt_size(char *template_fmt)
+static int template_fmt_size(const char *template_fmt)
 {
        char c;
        int template_fmt_len = strlen(template_fmt);
@@ -106,23 +106,28 @@ static int template_fmt_size(char *template_fmt)
        return j + 1;
 }
 
-static int template_desc_init_fields(char *template_fmt,
+static int template_desc_init_fields(const char *template_fmt,
                                     struct ima_template_field ***fields,
                                     int *num_fields)
 {
-       char *c, *template_fmt_ptr = template_fmt;
+       char *c, *template_fmt_copy;
        int template_num_fields = template_fmt_size(template_fmt);
        int i, result = 0;
 
        if (template_num_fields > IMA_TEMPLATE_NUM_FIELDS_MAX)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       /* copying is needed as strsep() modifies the original buffer */
+       template_fmt_copy = kstrdup(template_fmt, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (template_fmt_copy == NULL)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        *fields = kzalloc(template_num_fields * sizeof(*fields), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (*fields == NULL) {
                result = -ENOMEM;
                goto out;
        }
-       for (i = 0; (c = strsep(&template_fmt_ptr, "|")) != NULL &&
+       for (i = 0; (c = strsep(&template_fmt_copy, "|")) != NULL &&
             i < template_num_fields; i++) {
                struct ima_template_field *f = lookup_template_field(c);
 
@@ -133,10 +138,12 @@ static int template_desc_init_fields(char *template_fmt,
                (*fields)[i] = f;
        }
        *num_fields = i;
-       return 0;
 out:
-       kfree(*fields);
-       *fields = NULL;
+       if (result < 0) {
+               kfree(*fields);
+               *fields = NULL;
+       }
+       kfree(template_fmt_copy);
        return result;
 }