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[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 005/273] KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring()

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From: Kamal Mostafa <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-07 22:52:03
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Subsystem: keys/keyrings, security subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: David Howells, Jarkko Sakkinen, Paul Moore, James Morris, "Serge E. Hallyn", Linus Torvalds

3 review trailers.

4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Yevgeny Pats <redacted>

commit 23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 upstream.

This fixes CVE-2016-0728.

If a thread is asked to join as a session keyring the keyring that's already
set as its session, we leak a keyring reference.

This can be tested with the following program:

	#include <stddef.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>

	int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
	{
		int i = 0;
		key_serial_t serial;

		serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
				"leaked-keyring");
		if (serial < 0) {
			perror("keyctl");
			return -1;
		}

		if (keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM, serial,
			   KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_ALL) < 0) {
			perror("keyctl");
			return -1;
		}

		for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
			serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
					"leaked-keyring");
			if (serial < 0) {
				perror("keyctl");
				return -1;
			}
		}

		return 0;
	}

If, after the program has run, there something like the following line in
/proc/keys:

3f3d898f I--Q---   100 perm 3f3f0000     0     0 keyring   leaked-keyring: empty

with a usage count of 100 * the number of times the program has been run,
then the kernel is malfunctioning.  If leaked-keyring has zero usages or
has been garbage collected, then the problem is fixed.

Reported-by: Yevgeny Pats <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <redacted>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <redacted>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <redacted>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <redacted>
---
 security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index bd536cb..db91639 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -794,6 +794,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name)
 		ret = PTR_ERR(keyring);
 		goto error2;
 	} else if (keyring == new->session_keyring) {
+		key_put(keyring);
 		ret = 0;
 		goto error2;
 	}
-- 
2.7.0
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