__key_link_end is not freeing the associated array edit structure
and this leads to a 512 byte memory leak each time an identical
existing key is added with add_key().
The reason the add_key() system call returns okay is that
key_create_or_update() calls __key_link_begin() before checking to see
whether it can update a key directly rather than adding/replacing - which
it turns out it can. Thus __key_link() is not called through
__key_instantiate_and_link() and __key_link_end() must cancel the edit.
CVE-2015-1333
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/security/keys/keyring.c b/security/keys/keyring.c
index e72548b5897e..d33437007ad2 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyring.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyring.c
@@ -1181,9 +1181,11 @@ void __key_link_end(struct key *keyring,
if (index_key->type == &key_type_keyring)
up_write(&keyring_serialise_link_sem);
- if (edit && !edit->dead_leaf) {
- key_payload_reserve(keyring,
- keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
+ if (edit) {
+ if (!edit->dead_leaf) {
+ key_payload_reserve(keyring,
+ keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
+ }
assoc_array_cancel_edit(edit);
}
up_write(&keyring->sem);
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