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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:08:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> To: dhowells@redhat.com, jarkko@kernel.org, lukas@wunner.de, ignat@linux.win Cc: paul@paul-moore.com, jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 4ncienth@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH v2] keys: reject descriptions that exceed the index length Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:07:28 +0900 Message-ID: <20260828080728.2641312-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260828053805.1410721-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> References: <20260824113004.3755053-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> <20260828053805.1410721-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit struct keyring_index_key::desc_len is a u16. User-provided key descriptions are limited to 4095 bytes, but a key type preparser can generate a longer description when the caller passes NULL. The X.509 parser forms a description from the certificate subject and twice the raw serial length when the certificate has no Subject Key Identifier. A certificate with a two-byte subject and a 32766-byte serial therefore produces a 65536-byte description. Assigning strlen() to desc_len wraps it to zero, after which __key_link_begin() hits: BUG_ON(index_key->desc_len == 0); This was reproduced through keyctl on a v6.12.105 KASAN kernel with panic=1 and oops=panic. The process ran as uid and gid 1000 with no capabilities, and the console recorded: CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 [ 14.044055] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 14.044211] kernel BUG at security/keys/keyring.c:1308! [ 14.044375] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 14.044558] CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 138 Comm: keyctl Not tainted 6.12.105-dirty #1 [ 14.044788] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 14.045025] RIP: 0010:__key_link_begin+0x1e5/0x250 [ 14.047630] Call Trace: [ 14.047711] [ 14.047785] __key_create_or_update+0x490/0xcd0 [ 14.047954] ? __pfx___key_create_or_update+0x10/0x10 [ 14.048139] ? __pfx_lookup_user_key_possessed+0x10/0x10 [ 14.048323] key_create_or_update+0x47/0x60 [ 14.048484] __do_sys_add_key+0x219/0x430 [ 14.048632] ? __pfx___do_sys_add_key+0x10/0x10 [ 14.048794] ? switch_fpu_return+0x127/0x250 [ 14.048980] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 14.049163] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x6f/0xa0 [ 14.049417] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 14.049582] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x130 [ 14.049721] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 14.051772] [ 14.051975] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 14.054729] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception The same boundary was independently reproduced on 3/3 fresh v6.12.105 KASAN boots with the source reproducer. A one-byte-short control with a 32765-byte serial parsed successfully and returned EDQUOT without a splat, showing that the wrap boundary is causal. Measure generated descriptions before narrowing the length and reject values that cannot be represented. On 3/3 fresh patched mainline KASAN boots, the boundary returned EINVAL and the control continued to return EDQUOT, with no BUG, Oops, KASAN report, warning or panic. A tested source reproducer exists and is available to maintainers privately. Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> --- Changes in v2: - Add the observed keyctl crash trace and before/after runtime results to the commit message. - Clarify that the serial is used when the certificate has no Subject Key Identifier. - No code changes. security/keys/key.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c index b34a64d81d47ab..f2f472b45f4eee 100644 --- a/security/keys/key.c +++ b/security/keys/key.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "internal.h" struct kmem_cache *key_jar; @@ -820,6 +821,7 @@ static key_ref_t __key_create_or_update(key_ref_t keyring_ref, const struct cred *cred = current_cred(); struct key *keyring, *key = NULL; key_ref_t key_ref; + size_t desc_len; int ret; struct key_restriction *restrict_link = NULL; @@ -865,7 +867,12 @@ static key_ref_t __key_create_or_update(key_ref_t keyring_ref, if (!index_key.description) goto error_free_prep; } - index_key.desc_len = strlen(index_key.description); + desc_len = strlen(index_key.description); + if (desc_len > U16_MAX) { + key_ref = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + goto error_free_prep; + } + index_key.desc_len = desc_len; key_set_index_key(&index_key); ret = __key_link_lock(keyring, &index_key); base-commit: 0a0d1d55dad570724bf8c7ea83409639cfb4be9b -- 2.54.0