[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "selinux: fix sel_write_enforce broken return value" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Apr 9 08:58:19 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    selinux: fix sel_write_enforce broken return value

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d6335ca0f7d0c9fb2769f336db56e7a468c8be14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:01:35 -0700
Subject: selinux: fix sel_write_enforce broken return value

commit 6436a123a147db51a0b06024a8350f4c230e73ff upstream.

Return a negative error value like the rest of the entries in this function.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
[PM: tweaked subject line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index 33db1ad4fd10..138949a31eab 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_enforce(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		goto out;

 	/* No partial writes. */
-	length = EINVAL;
+	length = -EINVAL;
 	if (*ppos != 0)
 		goto out;





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