This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
keys-fix-keyring-ref-leak-in-join_session_keyring.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yevgeny Pats <yevgeny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:09:04 +0000
Subject: KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring()
From: Yevgeny Pats <yevgeny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 upstream.
This fixes CVE-2016-0728.
If a thread is asked to join as a session keyring the keyring that's already
set as its session, we leak a keyring reference.
This can be tested with the following program:
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <keyutils.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
int i = 0;
key_serial_t serial;
serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
"leaked-keyring");
if (serial < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
if (keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM, serial,
KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_ALL) < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
"leaked-keyring");
if (serial < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
}
return 0;
}
If, after the program has run, there something like the following line in
/proc/keys:
3f3d898f I--Q--- 100 perm 3f3f0000 0 0 keyring leaked-keyring: empty
with a usage count of 100 * the number of times the program has been run,
then the kernel is malfunctioning. If leaked-keyring has zero usages or
has been garbage collected, then the problem is fixed.
Reported-by: Yevgeny Pats <yevgeny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -794,6 +794,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *na
ret = PTR_ERR(keyring);
goto error2;
} else if (keyring == new->session_keyring) {
+ key_put(keyring);
ret = 0;
goto error2;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yevgeny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/keys-fix-keyring-ref-leak-in-join_session_keyring.patch
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