[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 107/107] KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Oct 26 19:05:29 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt19 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

commit 911b79cde95c7da0ec02f48105358a36636b7a71 upstream.

If request_key() is used to find a keyring, only do the search part - don't
do the construction part if the keyring was not found by the search.  We
don't really want keyrings in the negative instantiated state since the
rejected/negative instantiation error value in the payload is unioned with
keyring metadata.

Now the kernel gives an error:

	request_key("keyring", "#selinux,bdekeyring", "keyring", KEY_SPEC_USER_SESSION_KEYRING) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 security/keys/request_key.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 381411941cc1..9ea60a7bac78 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -457,6 +457,9 @@ static struct key *construct_key_and_link(struct keyring_search_context *ctx,
 
 	kenter("");
 
+	if (ctx->index_key.type == &key_type_keyring)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+	
 	user = key_user_lookup(current_fsuid());
 	if (!user)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);




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