From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>, Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>,
Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 19:01:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260906110152.240426-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260502163328.696098-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
The PKCS#8 parser deliberately leaves the asym_key_ids payload slot
empty. key_or_keyring_common() unconditionally dereferences that slot
when a PKCS#8 key is supplied to a key_or_keyring restriction. Both the
plain and :chain forms reach this branch, allowing an unprivileged caller
to trigger a NULL pointer dereference through KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING
followed by add_key().
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:key_or_keyring_common (crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c:205 crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c:279)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__key_create_or_update (security/keys/key.c:884)
key_create_or_update (security/keys/key.c:1021)
__do_sys_add_key (security/keys/keyctl.c:134)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Reject an asymmetric restriction key without key IDs. A PKCS#8 private
key cannot identify the signer of a candidate certificate and is not a
valid trust anchor.
Fixes: 3c58b2362ba8 ("KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver #2]")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429181629.110802-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Drop the unnecessary find_asymmetric_key() check.
- Reject a trust key without IDs instead of continuing the chain lookup.
- Use the PKCS#8 parser commit as the Fixes target.
crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
index 86292965f..0e4783ff7 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
@@ -243,10 +243,14 @@ static int key_or_keyring_common(struct key *dest_keyring,
if (IS_ERR(key))
key = NULL;
} else if (trusted->type == &key_type_asymmetric) {
+ const struct asymmetric_key_ids *kids;
const struct asymmetric_key_id **signer_ids;
- signer_ids = (const struct asymmetric_key_id **)
- asymmetric_key_ids(trusted)->id;
+ kids = asymmetric_key_ids(trusted);
+ if (!kids)
+ return -ENOKEY;
+
+ signer_ids = (const struct asymmetric_key_id **)kids->id;
/*
* The auth_ids come from the candidate key (the
--
2.55.0
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