Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20240402' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux

Pull selinux fix from Paul Moore:
 "A single patch for SELinux to fix a problem where we could potentially
  dereference an error pointer if we failed to successfully mount
  selinuxfs"

* tag 'selinux-pr-20240402' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure

security/selinux/selinuxfs.c

@@ -2123,7 +2123,6 @@ static struct file_system_type sel_fs_type = {
 	.kill_sb	= sel_kill_sb,
 };
 
-static struct vfsmount *selinuxfs_mount __ro_after_init;
 struct path selinux_null __ro_after_init;
 
 static int __init init_sel_fs(void)
@@ -2145,18 +2144,21 @@ static int __init init_sel_fs(void)
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	selinux_null.mnt = selinuxfs_mount = kern_mount(&sel_fs_type);
-	if (IS_ERR(selinuxfs_mount)) {
+	selinux_null.mnt = kern_mount(&sel_fs_type);
+	if (IS_ERR(selinux_null.mnt)) {
 		pr_err("selinuxfs:  could not mount!\n");
-		err = PTR_ERR(selinuxfs_mount);
-		selinuxfs_mount = NULL;
+		err = PTR_ERR(selinux_null.mnt);
+		selinux_null.mnt = NULL;
+		return err;
 	}
+
 	selinux_null.dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(selinux_null.mnt->mnt_root,
 						&null_name);
 	if (IS_ERR(selinux_null.dentry)) {
 		pr_err("selinuxfs:  could not lookup null!\n");
 		err = PTR_ERR(selinux_null.dentry);
 		selinux_null.dentry = NULL;
+		return err;
 	}
 
 	return err;