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KEYS: Make the keyring cycle detector ignore other keyrings of the same name

This fixes CVE-2014-0102.

The following command sequence produces an oops:

keyctl new_session
i=`keyctl newring _ses @s`
keyctl link @s $i

The problem is that search_nested_keyrings() sees two keyrings that have
matching type and description, so keyring_compare_object() returns true.
s_n_k() then passes the key to the iterator function -
keyring_detect_cycle_iterator() - which *should* check to see whether this is
the keyring of interest, not just one with the same name.

Because assoc_array_find() will return one and only one match, I assumed that
the iterator function would only see an exact match or never be called - but
the iterator isn't only called from assoc_array_find()...

The oops looks something like this:

kernel BUG at /data/fs/linux-2.6-fscache/security/keys/keyring.c:1003!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
RIP: keyring_detect_cycle_iterator+0xe/0x1f
...
Call Trace:
search_nested_keyrings+0x76/0x2aa
__key_link_check_live_key+0x50/0x5f
key_link+0x4e/0x85
keyctl_keyring_link+0x60/0x81
SyS_keyctl+0x65/0xe4
tracesys+0xdd/0xe2

The fix is to make keyring_detect_cycle_iterator() check that the key it
has is the key it was actually looking for rather than calling BUG_ON().

A testcase has been included in the keyutils testsuite for this:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=891f3365d07f1996778ade0e3428f01878a1790b

Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

David Howells and committed by
Linus Torvalds
979e0d74 1dc3217d

+5 -1
+5 -1
security/keys/keyring.c
··· 1000 1000 1001 1001 kenter("{%d}", key->serial); 1002 1002 1003 - BUG_ON(key != ctx->match_data); 1003 + /* We might get a keyring with matching index-key that is nonetheless a 1004 + * different keyring. */ 1005 + if (key != ctx->match_data) 1006 + return 0; 1007 + 1004 1008 ctx->result = ERR_PTR(-EDEADLK); 1005 1009 return 1; 1006 1010 }