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authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2014-12-29 17:39:01 +0300
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2015-01-29 17:45:09 +0300
commit1bb0aca1e0881dfd34a6f39fd44e1e995fc302a1 (patch)
tree9fb9640abd1491f7bd7c2ac27a9d3b252cab27bb /security
parentad9f4ac8dfc8437f97ee35df7ecfbb62c8ebaee9 (diff)
downloadlinux-1bb0aca1e0881dfd34a6f39fd44e1e995fc302a1.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/gc.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/gc.c b/security/keys/gc.c
index d67c97bb1025..797818695c87 100644
--- a/security/keys/gc.c
+++ b/security/keys/gc.c
@@ -201,12 +201,12 @@ static noinline void key_gc_unused_keys(struct list_head *keys)
if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_INSTANTIATED, &key->flags))
atomic_dec(&key->user->nikeys);
- key_user_put(key->user);
-
/* now throw away the key memory */
if (key->type->destroy)
key->type->destroy(key);
+ key_user_put(key->user);
+
kfree(key->description);
#ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING