This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KEYS: ensure we free the assoc array edit if edit is valid
to the 4.1-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-ensure-we-free-the-assoc-array-edit-if-edit-is-valid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ca4da5dd1f99fe9c59f1709fb43e818b18ad20e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:23:43 +0100
Subject: KEYS: ensure we free the assoc array edit if edit is valid
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ca4da5dd1f99fe9c59f1709fb43e818b18ad20e0 upstream.
__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>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/keys/keyring.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- 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);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/keys-ensure-we-free-the-assoc-array-edit-if-edit-is-valid.patch
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