linux/security/keys, branch v2.6.36

KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring

2010-09-10T14:30:00Z

Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session keyring [CVE-2010-2960]. This results in the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0 IP: [] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x251/0x443 ... Call Trace: [] ? keyctl_session_to_parent+0x67/0x443 [] ? __do_fault+0x24b/0x3d0 [] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb8 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b if the parent process has no session keyring. If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure. To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/. Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()

2010-09-10T14:30:00Z

There's an protected access to the parent process's credentials in the middle of keyctl_session_to_parent(). This results in the following RCU warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- security/keys/keyctl.c:1291 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-session-/2137: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x60/0x236 stack backtrace: Pid: 2137, comm: keyctl-session- Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-cachefs+ #1 Call Trace: [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3 [] keyctl_session_to_parent+0xed/0x236 [] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb6 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The code should take the RCU read lock to make sure the parents credentials don't go away, even though it's holding a spinlock and has IRQ disabled. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks

2010-08-12T16:51:35Z

Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KEYS: request_key() should return -ENOKEY if the constructed key is negative

2010-08-06T16:17:02Z

request_key() should return -ENOKEY if the key it constructs has been negatively instantiated. Without this, request_key() can return an unusable key to its caller, and if the caller then does key_validate() that won't catch the problem. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KEYS: Reinstate lost passing of process keyring ID in call_sbin_request_key()

2010-08-02T05:34:56Z

In commit bb952bb98a7e479262c7eb25d5592545a3af147d there was the accidental deletion of a statement from call_sbin_request_key() to render the process keyring ID to a text string so that it can be passed to /sbin/request-key. With gcc 4.6.0 this causes the following warning: CC security/keys/request_key.o security/keys/request_key.c: In function 'call_sbin_request_key': security/keys/request_key.c:102:15: warning: variable 'prkey' set but not used This patch reinstates that statement. Without this statement, /sbin/request-key will get some random rubbish from the stack as that parameter. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Use the variable 'key' in keyctl_describe_key()

2010-08-02T05:34:56Z

keyctl_describe_key() turns the key reference it gets into a usable key pointer and assigns that to a variable called 'key', which it then ignores in favour of recomputing the key pointer each time it needs it. Make it use the precomputed pointer instead. Without this patch, gcc 4.6 reports that the variable key is set but not used: building with gcc 4.6 I'm getting a warning message: CC security/keys/keyctl.o security/keys/keyctl.c: In function 'keyctl_describe_key': security/keys/keyctl.c:472:14: warning: variable 'key' set but not used Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Make /proc/keys check to see if a key is possessed before security check

2010-08-02T05:34:27Z

Make /proc/keys check to see if the calling process possesses each key before performing the security check. The possession check can be skipped if the key doesn't have the possessor-view permission bit set. This causes the keys a process possesses to show up in /proc/keys, even if they don't have matching user/group/other view permissions. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Authorise keyctl_set_timeout() on a key if we have its authorisation key

2010-08-02T05:34:27Z

Authorise a process to perform keyctl_set_timeout() on an uninstantiated key if that process has the authorisation key for it. This allows the instantiator to set the timeout on a key it is instantiating - provided it does it before instantiating the key. For instance, the test upcall script provided with the keyutils package could be modified to set the expiry to an hour hence before instantiating the key: [/usr/share/keyutils/request-key-debug.sh] if [ "$3" != "neg" ] then + keyctl timeout $1 3600 keyctl instantiate $1 "Debug $3" $4 || exit 1 else Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris

KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL

2010-06-27T14:02:34Z

This is from a Smatch check I'm writing. strncpy_from_user() returns -EFAULT on error so the first change just silences a warning but doesn't change how the code works. The other change is a bug fix because install_thread_keyring_to_cred() can return a variety of errors such as -EINVAL, -EEXIST, -ENOMEM or -EKEYREVOKED. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

keyctl_session_to_parent(): use thread_group_empty() to check singlethreadness

2010-05-27T16:12:47Z

No functional changes. keyctl_session_to_parent() is the only user of signal->count which needs the correct value. Change it to use thread_group_empty() instead, this must be strictly equivalent under tasklist, and imho looks better. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: David Howells Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds