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<title>kernel/linux.git/security/keys/user_defined.c, branch linux-2.6.34.y</title>
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<title>KEYS: Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type</title>
<updated>2012-08-17T19:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-11-15T22:09:45+00:00</published>
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commit 9f35a33b8d06263a165efe3541d9aa0cdbd70b3b upstream.

Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type whereby updating a
negative key into a fully instantiated key will cause an oops to occur
when the code attempts to free the non-existent old payload.

This results in an oops that looks something like the following:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [&lt;ffffffff81085fa1&gt;] __call_rcu+0x11/0x13e
  PGD 3391d067 PUD 3894a067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  CPU 1
  Pid: 4354, comm: keyctl Not tainted 3.1.0-fsdevel+ #1140                  /DG965RY
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81085fa1&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81085fa1&gt;] __call_rcu+0x11/0x13e
  RSP: 0018:ffff88003d591df8  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000006e
  RDX: ffffffff8161d0c0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffff88003d591e18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8152fa6c
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000300 R12: ffff88003b8f9538
  R13: ffffffff8161d0c0 R14: ffff88003b8f9d50 R15: ffff88003c69f908
  FS:  00007f97eb18c720(0000) GS:ffff88003bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000003d47a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process keyctl (pid: 4354, threadinfo ffff88003d590000, task ffff88003c78a040)
  Stack:
   ffff88003e0ffde0 ffff88003b8f9538 0000000000000001 ffff88003b8f9d50
   ffff88003d591e28 ffffffff810860f0 ffff88003d591e68 ffffffff8117bfea
   ffff88003d591e68 ffffffff00000000 ffff88003e0ffde1 ffff88003e0ffde0
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff810860f0&gt;] call_rcu_sched+0x10/0x12
   [&lt;ffffffff8117bfea&gt;] user_update+0x8d/0xa2
   [&lt;ffffffff8117723a&gt;] key_create_or_update+0x236/0x270
   [&lt;ffffffff811789b1&gt;] sys_add_key+0x123/0x17e
   [&lt;ffffffff813b84bb&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Dickson &lt;steved@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[PG: pre-3.0 kernels dont have kfree_rcu, so tweak accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Fix an RCU warning in the reading of user keys</title>
<updated>2010-05-05T01:38:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-30T13:32:08+00:00</published>
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Fix an RCU warning in the reading of user keys:

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
security/keys/user_defined.c:202 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by keyctl/3637:
 #0:  (&amp;key-&gt;sem){+++++.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff811a80ae&gt;] keyctl_read_key+0x9c/0xcf

stack backtrace:
Pid: 3637, comm: keyctl Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-cachefs #18
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff81051f6c&gt;] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [&lt;ffffffff811aa55f&gt;] user_read+0x47/0x91
 [&lt;ffffffff811a80be&gt;] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
 [&lt;ffffffff811a8a06&gt;] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb7
 [&lt;ffffffff81001eeb&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h</title>
<updated>2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Schmielau</name>
<email>tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-14T08:33:14+00:00</published>
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After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau &lt;tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] keys: discard the contents of a key on revocation</title>
<updated>2006-06-26T16:58:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-26T07:24:51+00:00</published>
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Cause the keys linked to a keyring to be unlinked from it when revoked and it
causes the data attached to a user-defined key to be discarded when revoked.

This frees up most of the quota a key occupied at that point, rather than
waiting for the key to actually be destroyed.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Keys: Remove key duplication</title>
<updated>2006-01-06T16:33:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-06T08:11:24+00:00</published>
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Remove the key duplication stuff since there's nothing that uses it, no way
to get at it and it's awkward to deal with for LSM purposes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Keys: Export user-defined keyring operations</title>
<updated>2005-10-31T01:37:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-30T23:02:42+00:00</published>
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Export user-defined key operations so that those who wish to define their
own key type based on the user-defined key operations may do so (as has
been requested).

The header file created has been placed into include/keys/user-type.h, thus
creating a directory where other key types may also be placed.  Any
objections to doing this?

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-Off-By: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] eCryptfs: export user key type</title>
<updated>2005-06-24T07:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Halcrow</name>
<email>mhalcrow@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-06-24T05:00:58+00:00</published>
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Export this symbol to GPL modules for eCryptfs: an out-of-tree GPL'ed
filesystem.

Signed off by: Michael Halcrow &lt;mhalcrow@us.ibm.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload</title>
<updated>2005-06-24T07:05:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-06-24T05:00:49+00:00</published>
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The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways:

 (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure.

 (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of
     write-locking the key spinlock and using C bitwise operators.

     The three instantiation flags are dealt with with the construction
     semaphore held during the request_key/instantiate/negate sequence, thus
     rendering the spinlock superfluous.

     The key flags are also now bit numbers not bit masks.

 (3) The key payload is now accessed using RCU. This permits the recursive
     keyring search algorithm to be simplified greatly since no locks need be
     taken other than the usual RCU preemption disablement. Searching now does
     not require any locks or semaphores to be held; merely that the starting
     keyring be pinned.

 (4) The keyring payload now includes an RCU head so that it can be disposed
     of by call_rcu(). This requires that the payload be copied on unlink to
     prevent introducing races in copy-down vs search-up.

 (5) The user key payload is now a structure with the data following it. It
     includes an RCU head like the keyring payload and for the same reason. It
     also contains a data length because the data length in the key may be
     changed on another CPU whilst an RCU protected read is in progress on the
     payload. This would then see the supposed RCU payload and the on-key data
     length getting out of sync.

     I'm tempted to drop the key's datalen entirely, except that it's used in
     conjunction with quota management and so is a little tricky to get rid
     of.

 (6) Update the keys documentation.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Linux-2.6.12-rc2</title>
<updated>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</published>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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