Commit 94efe72f authored Aug 04, 2005 by David Howells Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 04, 2005

[PATCH] Destruction of failed keyring oopses



The attached patch makes sure that a keyring that failed to instantiate
properly is destroyed without oopsing [CAN-2005-2099].

The problem occurs in three stages:

 (1) The key allocator initialises the type-specific data to all zeroes. In
     the case of a keyring, this will become a link in the keyring name list
     when the keyring is instantiated.

 (2) If a user (any user) attempts to add a keyring with anything other than
     an empty payload, the keyring instantiation function will fail with an
     error and won't add the keyring to the name list.

 (3) The keyring's destructor then sees that the keyring has a description
     (name) and tries to remove the keyring from the name list, which oopses
     because the link pointers are both zero.

This bug permits any user to take down a box trivially.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent bcf945d3

security/keys/keyring.c

+5 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -201,7 +201,11 @@ static void keyring_destroy(struct key *keyring)

		if (keyring->description) {
		write_lock(&keyring_name_lock);

		if (keyring->type_data.link.next != NULL &&
		!list_empty(&keyring->type_data.link))
		list_del(&keyring->type_data.link);

		write_unlock(&keyring_name_lock);
		}

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