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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jmorris@namei.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, dvyukov@google.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KEYS: Fix crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:12:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151019161258.3215.89852.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151019161248.3215.91824.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

The following sequence of commands:

    i=`keyctl add user a a @s`
    keyctl request2 keyring foo bar @t
    keyctl unlink $i @s

tries to invoke an upcall to instantiate a keyring if one doesn't already
exist by that name within the user's keyring set.  However, if the upcall
fails, the code sets keyring->type_data.reject_error to -ENOKEY or some
other error code.  When the key is garbage collected, the key destroy
function is called unconditionally and keyring_destroy() uses list_empty()
on keyring->type_data.link - which is in a union with reject_error.
Subsequently, the kernel tries to unlink the keyring from the keyring names
list - which oopses like this:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000ffffff8a
	IP: [<ffffffff8126e051>] keyring_destroy+0x3d/0x88
	...
	Workqueue: events key_garbage_collector
	...
	RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8126e051>] keyring_destroy+0x3d/0x88
	RSP: 0018:ffff88003e2f3d30  EFLAGS: 00010203
	RAX: 00000000ffffff82 RBX: ffff88003bf1a900 RCX: 0000000000000000
	RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000003bfc6901 RDI: ffffffff81a73a40
	RBP: ffff88003e2f3d38 R08: 0000000000000152 R09: 0000000000000000
	R10: ffff88003e2f3c18 R11: 000000000000865b R12: ffff88003bf1a900
	R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88003bf1a908 R15: ffff88003e2f4000
	...
	CR2: 00000000ffffff8a CR3: 000000003e3ec000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff8126c756>] key_gc_unused_keys.constprop.1+0x5d/0x10f
	 [<ffffffff8126ca71>] key_garbage_collector+0x1fa/0x351
	 [<ffffffff8105ec9b>] process_one_work+0x28e/0x547
	 [<ffffffff8105fd17>] worker_thread+0x26e/0x361
	 [<ffffffff8105faa9>] ? rescuer_thread+0x2a8/0x2a8
	 [<ffffffff810648ad>] kthread+0xf3/0xfb
	 [<ffffffff810647ba>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1c2/0x1c2
	 [<ffffffff815f2ccf>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
	 [<ffffffff810647ba>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1c2/0x1c2

Note the value in RAX.  This is a 32-bit representation of -ENOKEY.

The solution is to only call ->destroy() if the key was successfully
instantiated.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
---

 security/keys/gc.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/gc.c b/security/keys/gc.c
index 39eac1fd5706..addf060399e0 100644
--- a/security/keys/gc.c
+++ b/security/keys/gc.c
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ static noinline void key_gc_unused_keys(struct list_head *keys)
 		kdebug("- %u", key->serial);
 		key_check(key);
 
-		/* Throw away the key data */
-		if (key->type->destroy)
+		/* Throw away the key data if the key is instantiated */
+		if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_INSTANTIATED, &key->flags) &&
+		    !test_bit(KEY_FLAG_NEGATIVE, &key->flags) &&
+		    key->type->destroy)
 			key->type->destroy(key);
 
 		security_key_free(key);


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-19 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-19 16:12 [PATCH 0/2] KEYS: Fix crash in GC David Howells
2015-10-19 16:12 ` David Howells [this message]
2015-10-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring David Howells

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