[PATCH -next, v3 1/2] audit: fix possible null-pointer dereference in audit_filter_rules

[Paul Moore]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 3:21 AM Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> Fix  possible null-pointer dereference in audit_filter_rules.
>
> audit_filter_rules() error: we previously assumed 'ctx' could be null
>
> Fixes: bf361231c295 ("audit: add saddr_fam filter field")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com>
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thank you for the patch; I added a stable tag and merged it into
audit/stable-5.15, I'll send it up to Linus later this week once it
has gone through some additional testing.

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com