Patch "selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
selinux-skip-bounded-transition-processing-if-the-policy-isn-t-loaded.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:17:43 -0500
Subject: selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded

From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>

commit 4b14752ec4e0d87126e636384cf37c8dd9df157c upstream.

We can't do anything reasonable in security_bounded_transition() if we don't have a policy loaded, and in fact we could run into problems with some of the code inside expecting a policy. Fix these problems like we do many others in security/selinux/ss/services.c by checking to see if the policy is loaded (ss_initialized) and returning quickly if it isn't.

---
 security/selinux/ss/services.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -860,6 +860,9 @@ int security_bounded_transition(u32 old_
 	int index;
 	int rc;
 
+	if (!ss_initialized)
+		return 0;
+
 	read_lock(&policy_rwlock);
 
 	rc = -EINVAL;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/selinux-skip-bounded-transition-processing-if-the-policy-isn-t-loaded.patch queue-4.4/selinux-ensure-the-context-is-nul-terminated-in-security_context_to_sid_core.patch