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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600
commit822bbba0cabb50825a0ce22707dc45eb82d02853 (patch)
treeea61d4ca72cb60b4cae8e95f64eefa7cd2a36603 /security/selinux/ss/services.c
parentd41abfd7ae33cd3c1d9189438937d61cb75e690a (diff)
parent7d194c2100ad2a6dded545887d02754948ca5241 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.4-rc4' into docs-next
I need to pick up the independent changes made to Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst to be able to merge further work without creating a total mess.
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux/ss/services.c')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/services.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 3a29e7c24ba9..a5813c7629c1 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -1946,7 +1946,14 @@ static int convert_context(struct context *oldc, struct context *newc, void *p)
rc = string_to_context_struct(args->newp, NULL, s,
newc, SECSID_NULL);
if (rc == -EINVAL) {
- /* Retain string representation for later mapping. */
+ /*
+ * Retain string representation for later mapping.
+ *
+ * IMPORTANT: We need to copy the contents of oldc->str
+ * back into s again because string_to_context_struct()
+ * may have garbled it.
+ */
+ memcpy(s, oldc->str, oldc->len);
context_init(newc);
newc->str = s;
newc->len = oldc->len;