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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-01-14 15:39:23 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-01-14 15:39:23 -0800
commit919ba4ee1badf6247f8064bdec2c80e389b57c40 (patch)
treee18a358f60e67901093f91a300bbf7b7a6e4d543 /kernel/auditsc.c
parent06087cb42dc1da096c37f51ea12ad676f00569a9 (diff)
parent04f9c6e6d17584340fb6c8a9469a0e6df28876d2 (diff)
Merge tag 'usb-serial-3.19-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/usb-serial into usb-linus
Johan writes: USB-serial fixes for v3.18-rc5 Here are a few fixes for reported problems including a possible null-deref on probe with keyspan, a misbehaving modem, and a couple of issues with the USB console. Some new device IDs are also added. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/auditsc.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index c75522a83678..37c69ab561da 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1877,12 +1877,18 @@ void __audit_inode(struct filename *name, const struct dentry *dentry,
}
out_alloc:
- /* unable to find the name from a previous getname(). Allocate a new
- * anonymous entry.
- */
- n = audit_alloc_name(context, AUDIT_TYPE_NORMAL);
+ /* unable to find an entry with both a matching name and type */
+ n = audit_alloc_name(context, AUDIT_TYPE_UNKNOWN);
if (!n)
return;
+ if (name)
+ /* since name is not NULL we know there is already a matching
+ * name record, see audit_getname(), so there must be a type
+ * mismatch; reuse the string path since the original name
+ * record will keep the string valid until we free it in
+ * audit_free_names() */
+ n->name = name;
+
out:
if (parent) {
n->name_len = n->name ? parent_len(n->name->name) : AUDIT_NAME_FULL;