commit 0a6b29230ec336189bab32498df3f06c8a6944d8
author Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Thu Aug 02 11:38:23 2018 +0300
committer John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Tue Aug 21 16:24:56 2018 -0700
tree 0ad3a73388010f8214152d9689f6d4a304c09b04
parent 24b87a16fee0ebd49b66e8523186ace7ea09ad12

apparmor: fix an error code in __aa_create_ns()

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>

security/apparmor/policy_ns.c

diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
index b0f9dc3..1a7cec5 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);