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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin () oracle ! com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:39:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing
When a key is being garbage collected, it's key->user would get put before
the ->destroy() callback is called, where the key is removed from it's
respective tracking structures.
This leaves a key hanging in a semi-invalid state which leaves a window open
for a different task to try an access key->user. An example is
find_keyring_by_name() which would dereference key->user for a key that is
in the process of being garbage collected (where key->user was freed but
->destroy() wasn't called yet - so it's still present in the linked list).
This would cause either a panic, or corrupt memory.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
security/keys/gc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/gc.c b/security/keys/gc.c
index 9609a7f0faea..c7952375ac53 100644
--- a/security/keys/gc.c
+++ b/security/keys/gc.c
@@ -148,12 +148,12 @@ static noinline void key_gc_unused_keys(struct list_head *keys)
if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_INSTANTIATED, &key->flags))
atomic_dec(&key->user->nikeys);
- key_user_put(key->user);
-
/* now throw away the key memory */
if (key->type->destroy)
key->type->destroy(key);
+ key_user_put(key->user);
+
kfree(key->description);
#ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING
--
2.1.0
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