audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference
authorRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:30:07 +0000 (04:30 -0500)
committerMichael Benedict <michaelbt@live.com>
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:18:47 +0000 (02:18 +1000)
commit47f56791df8d6053cc38109ad80b4baeea7c59c5
tree09c635fbafeb9e0b22e4e1193c0c17ba1643f3f5
parent67a789708a7be857c1506a58f88074eaadf37533
audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference

[ Upstream commit 23138ead270045f1b3e912e667967b6094244999 ]

If there is a memory allocation error when trying to change an audit
kernel feature value, the ignored allocation error will trigger a NULL
pointer dereference oops on subsequent use of that pointer.  Return
instead.

Passes audit-testsuite.
See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/76

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
[PM: not necessary (other funcs check for NULL), but a good practice]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/audit.c