--- /dev/null
+From 1fc65da3a0dd2094b2e10ae5dc5071be16250b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:58:03 +0800
+Subject: ima: Simplify ima_lsm_copy_rule
+
+From: GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
+
+[ Upstream commit d57378d3aa4d864d9e590482602068af1b20c0c5 ]
+
+Currently ima_lsm_copy_rule() set the arg_p field of the source rule to
+NULL, so that the source rule could be freed afterward. It does not make
+sense for this behavior to be inside a "copy" function. So move it
+outside and let the caller handle this field.
+
+ima_lsm_copy_rule() now produce a shallow copy of the original entry
+including args_p field. Meaning only the lsm.rule and the rule itself
+should be freed for the original rule. Thus, instead of calling
+ima_lsm_free_rule() which frees lsm.rule as well as args_p field, free
+the lsm.rule directly.
+
+Signed-off-by: GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
+Reviewed-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
+Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
+Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+---
+ security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 10 +++-------
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+index a83ce111cf50..96ecb7d25403 100644
+--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
++++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+@@ -370,12 +370,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
+
+ nentry->lsm[i].type = entry->lsm[i].type;
+ nentry->lsm[i].args_p = entry->lsm[i].args_p;
+- /*
+- * Remove the reference from entry so that the associated
+- * memory will not be freed during a later call to
+- * ima_lsm_free_rule(entry).
+- */
+- entry->lsm[i].args_p = NULL;
+
+ ima_filter_rule_init(nentry->lsm[i].type, Audit_equal,
+ nentry->lsm[i].args_p,
+@@ -389,6 +383,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
+
+ static int ima_lsm_update_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
+ {
++ int i;
+ struct ima_rule_entry *nentry;
+
+ nentry = ima_lsm_copy_rule(entry);
+@@ -403,7 +398,8 @@ static int ima_lsm_update_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
+ * references and the entry itself. All other memory refrences will now
+ * be owned by nentry.
+ */
+- ima_lsm_free_rule(entry);
++ for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++)
++ ima_filter_rule_free(entry->lsm[i].rule);
+ kfree(entry);
+
+ return 0;
+--
+2.35.1
+