linux/security/keys, branch v2.6.32

KEYS: get_instantiation_keyring() should inc the keyring refcount in all cases

2009-10-15T22:19:58Z

The destination keyring specified to request_key() and co. is made available to the process that instantiates the key (the slave process started by /sbin/request-key typically). This is passed in the request_key_auth struct as the dest_keyring member. keyctl_instantiate_key and keyctl_negate_key() call get_instantiation_keyring() to get the keyring to attach the newly constructed key to at the end of instantiation. This may be given a specific keyring into which a link will be made later, or it may be asked to find the keyring passed to request_key(). In the former case, it returns a keyring with the refcount incremented by lookup_user_key(); in the latter case, it returns the keyring from the request_key_auth struct - and does _not_ increment the refcount. The latter case will eventually result in an oops when the keyring prematurely runs out of references and gets destroyed. The effect may take some time to show up as the key is destroyed lazily. To fix this, the keyring returned by get_instantiation_keyring() must always have its refcount incremented, no matter where it comes from. This can be tested by setting /etc/request-key.conf to: #OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ... #====== ======= =============== =============== =============================== create * test:* * |/bin/false %u %g %d %{user:_display} negate * * * /bin/keyctl negate %k 10 @u and then doing: keyctl add user _display aaaaaaaa @u while keyctl request2 user test:x test:x @u && keyctl list @u; do keyctl request2 user test:x test:x @u; sleep 31; keyctl list @u; done which will oops eventually. Changing the negate line to have @u rather than %S at the end is important as that forces the latter case by passing a special keyring ID rather than an actual keyring ID. Reported-by: Alexander Zangerl Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Alexander Zangerl Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KEYS: Have the garbage collector set its timer for live expired keys

2009-09-23T18:03:47Z

The key garbage collector sets a timer to start a new collection cycle at the point the earliest key to expire should be considered garbage. However, it currently only does this if the key it is considering hasn't yet expired. If the key being considering has expired, but hasn't yet reached the collection time then it is ignored, and won't be collected until some other key provokes a round of collection. Make the garbage collector set the timer for the earliest key that hasn't yet passed its collection time, rather than the earliest key that hasn't yet expired. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Fix garbage collector

2009-09-14T23:11:02Z

Fix a number of problems with the new key garbage collector: (1) A rogue semicolon in keyring_gc() was causing the initial count of dead keys to be miscalculated. (2) A missing return in keyring_gc() meant that under certain circumstances, the keyring semaphore would be unlocked twice. (3) The key serial tree iterator (key_garbage_collector()) part of the garbage collector has been modified to: (a) Complete each scan of the keyrings before setting the new timer. (b) Only set the new timer for keys that have yet to expire. This means that the new timer is now calculated correctly, and the gc doesn't get into a loop continually scanning for keys that have expired, and preventing other things from happening, like RCU cleaning up the old keyring contents. (c) Perform an extra scan if any keys were garbage collected in this one as a key might become garbage during a scan, and (b) could mean we don't set the timer again. (4) Made key_schedule_gc() take the time at which to do a collection run, rather than the time at which the key expires. This means the collection of dead keys (key type unregistered) can happen immediately. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Unlock tasklist when exiting early from keyctl_session_to_parent

2009-09-14T23:10:59Z

When we exit early from keyctl_session_to_parent because of permissions or because the session keyring is the same as the parent, we need to unlock the tasklist. The missing unlock causes the system to hang completely when using keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT) with a keyring shared with the parent. Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:22Z

Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent. This replaces the parent's session keyring. Because the COW credential code does not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again. Normally this will be after a wait*() syscall. To support this, three new security hooks have been provided: cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if the process may replace its parent's session keyring. The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it. Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path. This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. This allows the replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace execution. This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to alter the parent process's PAG membership. However, since kAFS doesn't use PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed the newpag flag. This can be tested with the following program: #include #include #include #define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT 18 #define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0) int main(int argc, char **argv) { key_serial_t keyring, key; long ret; keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]); OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring"); key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring); OSERROR(key, "add_key"); ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT); OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT"); return 0; } Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like: [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 355907932 --alswrv 4043 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.4043 [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 1055658746 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: hello 340417692 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named 'a' into it and then installs it on its parent. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:16Z

Do some whitespace cleanups in the key management code. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:14Z

Make the file position maintained by /proc/keys represent the ID of the key just read rather than the number of keys read. This should make it faster to perform a lookup as we don't have to scan the key ID tree from the beginning to find the current position. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:11Z

Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. This involved erasing all links to such keys from keyrings that point to them. At that point, the key will be deleted in the normal manner. Keyrings from which garbage collection occurs are shrunk and their quota consumption reduced as appropriate. Dead keys (for which the key type has been removed) will be garbage collected immediately. Revoked and expired keys will hang around for a number of seconds, as set in /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay before being automatically removed. The default is 5 minutes. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:09Z

Set the KEY_FLAG_DEAD flag on keys for which the type has been removed. This causes the key_permission() function to return EKEYREVOKED in response to various commands. It does not, however, prevent unlinking or clearing of keyrings from detaching the key. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm [try #6]

2009-09-02T11:29:06Z

Allow keyctl_revoke() to operate on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE permission, rather than only on keys that have WRITE permission. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris