linux/security
Bryam Vargas a4f182f871 selinux: do not cancel a policy conversion that never started
commit e5c0235a3c upstream.

sel_write_load() calls selinux_policy_cancel() when sel_make_policy_nodes()
fails, and that helper dereferences the outgoing policy to cancel its
sidtab conversion. On the first policy load there is no outgoing policy:
security_load_policy() returns early for that case, before it converts
anything, and state->policy is still NULL. A first load that fails while
building the selinuxfs tree therefore takes a NULL dereference in
selinux_policy_cancel(), reached from a write(2) to /sys/fs/selinux/load.

Skip the cancel when there is no old policy, mirroring the check
security_load_policy() already makes before it converts.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 02a52c5c8c ("selinux: move policy commit after updating selinuxfs")
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-08-23 14:17:15 +02:00
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apparmor apparmor: fix label can not be immediately before a declaration 2026-07-24 15:51:39 +02:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Set bpf_lsm_blob_sizes.lbs_task to 0 2024-10-17 15:11:18 +02:00
integrity ima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify() 2026-08-19 17:14:15 +02:00
keys keys: make keyring key-chunk byte order agree with keyring_diff_objects() 2026-08-19 17:14:06 +02:00
landlock landlock: Add the errata interface 2025-05-02 07:44:20 +02:00
loadpin LoadPin: Ignore the "contents" argument of the LSM hooks 2022-12-31 13:14:45 +01:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid safesetid: check size of policy writes 2025-03-13 12:50:17 +01:00
selinux selinux: do not cancel a policy conversion that never started 2026-08-23 14:17:15 +02:00
smack smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values 2026-03-04 07:19:31 -05:00
tomoyo tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() 2025-03-13 12:50:18 +01:00
yama task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
commoncap.c capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc() 2022-11-10 18:15:39 +01:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Roll back to original exceptions after copy failure 2023-01-12 11:58:59 +01:00
inode.c securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-28 16:24:17 +02:00
Kconfig proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes 2024-10-17 15:11:27 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening security: Restrict CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS to gcc or clang > 15.0.6 2022-12-31 13:14:46 +01:00
lsm_audit.c audit: remove unnecessary 'ret' initialization 2021-06-11 13:21:28 -04:00
Makefile security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...) 2021-09-03 08:17:20 +09:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c xen/privcmd: add boot control for restricted usage in domU 2026-04-18 10:33:22 +02:00