From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit b4a1b4f5047e4f54e194681125c74c0aa64d637d upstream. This fixes CVE-2015-7550. There's a race between keyctl_read() and keyctl_revoke(). If the revoke happens between keyctl_read() checking the validity of a key and the key's semaphore being taken, then the key type read method will see a revoked key. This causes a problem for the user-defined key type because it assumes in its read method that there will always be a payload in a non-revoked key and doesn't check for a NULL pointer. Fix this by making keyctl_read() check the validity of a key after taking semaphore instead of before. I think the bug was introduced with the original keyrings code. This was discovered by a multithreaded test program generated by syzkaller (http://github.com/google/syzkaller). Here's a cleaned up version: #include <sys/types.h> #include <keyutils.h> #include <pthread.h> void *thr0(void *arg) { key_serial_t key = (unsigned long)arg; keyctl_revoke(key); return 0; } void *thr1(void *arg) { key_serial_t key = (unsigned long)arg; char buffer[16]; keyctl_read(key, buffer, 16); return 0; } int main() { key_serial_t key = add_key("user", "%", "foo", 3, KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING); pthread_t th[5]; pthread_create(&th[0], 0, thr0, (void *)(unsigned long)key); pthread_create(&th[1], 0, thr1, (void *)(unsigned long)key); pthread_create(&th[2], 0, thr0, (void *)(unsigned long)key); pthread_create(&th[3], 0, thr1, (void *)(unsigned long)key); pthread_join(th[0], 0); pthread_join(th[1], 0); pthread_join(th[2], 0); pthread_join(th[3], 0); return 0; } Build as: cc -o keyctl-race keyctl-race.c -lkeyutils -lpthread Run as: while keyctl-race; do :; done as it may need several iterations to crash the kernel. The crash can be summarised as: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: [<ffffffff81279b08>] user_read+0x56/0xa3 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff81276aa9>] keyctl_read_key+0xb6/0xd7 [<ffffffff81277815>] SyS_keyctl+0x83/0xe0 [<ffffffff815dbb97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- security/keys/keyctl.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c index 33cfd27b4de2..3242195bfa95 100644 --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c @@ -744,16 +744,16 @@ long keyctl_read_key(key_serial_t keyid, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen) /* the key is probably readable - now try to read it */ can_read_key: - ret = key_validate(key); - if (ret == 0) { - ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (key->type->read) { - /* read the data with the semaphore held (since we - * might sleep) */ - down_read(&key->sem); + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + if (key->type->read) { + /* Read the data with the semaphore held (since we might sleep) + * to protect against the key being updated or revoked. + */ + down_read(&key->sem); + ret = key_validate(key); + if (ret == 0) ret = key->type->read(key, buffer, buflen); - up_read(&key->sem); - } + up_read(&key->sem); } error2: -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html