ima: fix cred sparse warning Fix ima_policy.c sparse "warning: dereference of noderef expression" message, by accessing cred->uid using current_cred(). Changelog v1: - Change __cred to just cred (based on David Howell's comment) Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c index d661afb..d45061d 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ struct inode *inode, enum ima_hooks func, int mask) { struct task_struct *tsk = current; + const struct cred *cred = current_cred(); int i; if ((rule->flags & IMA_FUNC) && rule->func != func) @@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ if ((rule->flags & IMA_FSMAGIC) && rule->fsmagic != inode->i_sb->s_magic) return false; - if ((rule->flags & IMA_UID) && rule->uid != tsk->cred->uid) + if ((rule->flags & IMA_UID) && rule->uid != cred->uid) return false; for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++) { int rc = 0;