3.16.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 37863c43b2c6464f252862bf2e9768264e961678 upstream. Because keyctl_read_key() looks up the key with no permissions requested, it may find a negatively instantiated key. If the key is also possessed, we went ahead and called ->read() on the key. But the key payload will actually contain the ->reject_error rather than the normal payload. Thus, the kernel oopses trying to read the user_key_payload from memory address (int)-ENOKEY = 0x00000000ffffff82. Fortunately the payload data is stored inline, so it shouldn't be possible to abuse this as an arbitrary memory read primitive... Reproducer: keyctl new_session keyctl request2 user desc '' @s keyctl read $(keyctl show | awk '/user: desc/ {print $1}') It causes a crash like the following: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000ffffff92 IP: user_read+0x33/0xa0 PGD 36a54067 P4D 36a54067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 0 PID: 211 Comm: keyctl Not tainted 4.14.0-rc1 #337 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014 task: ffff90aa3b74c3c0 task.stack: ffff9878c0478000 RIP: 0010:user_read+0x33/0xa0 RSP: 0018:ffff9878c047bee8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff90aa3d7da340 RCX: 0000000000000017 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffff82 RDI: ffff90aa3d7da340 RBP: ffff9878c047bf00 R08: 00000024f95da94f R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f58ece69740(0000) GS:ffff90aa3e200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000ffffff92 CR3: 0000000036adc001 CR4: 00000000003606f0 Call Trace: keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xe0 SyS_keyctl+0x99/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x7f58ec787bb9 RSP: 002b:00007ffc8d401678 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000fa RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc8d402800 RCX: 00007f58ec787bb9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000174a63ac RDI: 000000000000000b RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00007ffc8d402809 R09: 0000000000000020 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffc8d402800 R13: 00007ffc8d4016e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 Code: e5 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 d4 53 48 89 fb e8 a4 b4 ad ff 85 c0 74 09 80 3d b9 4c 96 00 00 74 43 48 8b b3 20 01 00 00 4d 85 ed <0f> b7 5e 10 74 29 4d 85 e4 74 24 4c 39 e3 4c 89 e2 4c 89 ef 48 RIP: user_read+0x33/0xa0 RSP: ffff9878c047bee8 CR2: 00000000ffffff92 Fixes: 61ea0c0ba904 ("KEYS: Skip key state checks when checking for possession") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/keys/keyctl.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c @@ -735,6 +735,11 @@ long keyctl_read_key(key_serial_t keyid, key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref); + if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_NEGATIVE, &key->flags)) { + ret = -ENOKEY; + goto error2; + } + /* see if we can read it directly */ ret = key_permission(key_ref, KEY_NEED_READ); if (ret == 0)