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KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing
authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:39:01 +0000 (09:39 -0500)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:45:09 +0000 (15:45 +0100)
commit1bb0aca1e0881dfd34a6f39fd44e1e995fc302a1
tree9fb9640abd1491f7bd7c2ac27a9d3b252cab27bb
parentad9f4ac8dfc8437f97ee35df7ecfbb62c8ebaee9
KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing

commit a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c upstream.

When a key is being garbage collected, it's key->user would get put before
the ->destroy() callback is called, where the key is removed from it's
respective tracking structures.

This leaves a key hanging in a semi-invalid state which leaves a window open
for a different task to try an access key->user. An example is
find_keyring_by_name() which would dereference key->user for a key that is
in the process of being garbage collected (where key->user was freed but
->destroy() wasn't called yet - so it's still present in the linked list).

This would cause either a panic, or corrupt memory.

Fixes CVE-2014-9529.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
security/keys/gc.c