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Re: veriexecctl(8) segfaults when no argument is given



On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:07:31PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:09:46PM +0300, Stathis Kamperis wrote:
> > 
> > On the other hand, if I compile a kernel with your patch + LOCKDEBUG,
> > when I try to startX, I get a panic and here is the associated
> > backtrace:
> > 
> 
> Ah - It looks like we bail out of veriexec_file_verify() without
> setting vfep to something.  Try this (untested) patch:
> 

bah... that had a possible NULL dereference.  This one should be
better:

Index: kern_verifiedexec.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/kern/kern_verifiedexec.c,v
retrieving revision 1.109
diff -u -r1.109 kern_verifiedexec.c
--- kern_verifiedexec.c 20 Jul 2008 08:50:20 -0000      1.109
+++ kern_verifiedexec.c 8 Sep 2008 15:26:53 -0000
@@ -585,6 +585,9 @@
 #define VFE_NEEDS_EVAL(vfe) ((vfe->status == FINGERPRINT_NOTEVAL) || \
                             (vfe->type & VERIEXEC_UNTRUSTED))
 
+       if (vfep != NULL)
+               *vfep = NULL;
+
        if (vp->v_type != VREG)
                return (0);
 

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