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<updated>2011-01-21T22:59:30+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: Fix up comments in key management code</title>
<updated>2011-01-21T22:59:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-20T16:38:33+00:00</published>
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Fix up comments in the key management code.  No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Do some style cleanup in the key management code.</title>
<updated>2011-01-21T22:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-20T16:38:27+00:00</published>
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Do a bit of a style clean up in the key management code.  No functional
changes.

Done using:

  perl -p -i -e 's!^/[*]*/\n!!' security/keys/*.c
  perl -p -i -e 's!} /[*] end [a-z0-9_]*[(][)] [*]/\n!}\n!' security/keys/*.c
  sed -i -s -e ": next" -e N -e 's/^\n[}]$/}/' -e t -e P -e 's/^.*\n//' -e "b next" security/keys/*.c

To remove /*****/ lines, remove comments on the closing brace of a
function to name the function and remove blank lines before the closing
brace of a function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring</title>
<updated>2010-09-10T14:30:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-10T08:59:51+00:00</published>
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Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership
of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session
keyring [CVE-2010-2960].

This results in the following oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0
  IP: [&lt;ffffffff811ae4dd&gt;] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x251/0x443
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff811ae2f3&gt;] ? keyctl_session_to_parent+0x67/0x443
   [&lt;ffffffff8109d286&gt;] ? __do_fault+0x24b/0x3d0
   [&lt;ffffffff811af98c&gt;] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb8
   [&lt;ffffffff81001eab&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

if the parent process has no session keyring.

If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all
processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created
by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure.

To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/.

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@cmpxchg8b.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@cmpxchg8b.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()</title>
<updated>2010-09-10T14:30:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-10T08:59:46+00:00</published>
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There's an protected access to the parent process's credentials in the middle
of keyctl_session_to_parent().  This results in the following RCU warning:

  ===================================================
  [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
  ---------------------------------------------------
  security/keys/keyctl.c:1291 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
  1 lock held by keyctl-session-/2137:
   #0:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [&lt;ffffffff811ae2ec&gt;] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x60/0x236

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 2137, comm: keyctl-session- Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-cachefs+ #1
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff8105606a&gt;] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3
   [&lt;ffffffff811ae379&gt;] keyctl_session_to_parent+0xed/0x236
   [&lt;ffffffff811af77e&gt;] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb6
   [&lt;ffffffff81001eab&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The code should take the RCU read lock to make sure the parents credentials
don't go away, even though it's holding a spinlock and has IRQ disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>KEYS: Use the variable 'key' in keyctl_describe_key()</title>
<updated>2010-08-02T05:34:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-28T13:05:04+00:00</published>
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keyctl_describe_key() turns the key reference it gets into a usable key pointer
and assigns that to a variable called 'key', which it then ignores in favour of
recomputing the key pointer each time it needs it.  Make it use the precomputed
pointer instead.

Without this patch, gcc 4.6 reports that the variable key is set but not used:

	building with gcc 4.6 I'm getting a warning message:
	 CC      security/keys/keyctl.o
	security/keys/keyctl.c: In function 'keyctl_describe_key':
	security/keys/keyctl.c:472:14: warning: variable 'key' set but not used

Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>KEYS: Authorise keyctl_set_timeout() on a key if we have its authorisation key</title>
<updated>2010-08-02T05:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-11T16:31:05+00:00</published>
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Authorise a process to perform keyctl_set_timeout() on an uninstantiated key if
that process has the authorisation key for it.

This allows the instantiator to set the timeout on a key it is instantiating -
provided it does it before instantiating the key.

For instance, the test upcall script provided with the keyutils package could
be modified to set the expiry to an hour hence before instantiating the key:

	[/usr/share/keyutils/request-key-debug.sh]
	 if [ "$3" != "neg" ]
	 then
	+    keyctl timeout $1 3600
	     keyctl instantiate $1 "Debug $3" $4 || exit 1
	 else

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Propagate error code instead of returning -EINVAL</title>
<updated>2010-06-27T14:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>error27@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-11T16:30:05+00:00</published>
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This is from a Smatch check I'm writing.

strncpy_from_user() returns -EFAULT on error so the first change just
silences a warning but doesn't change how the code works.

The other change is a bug fix because install_thread_keyring_to_cred()
can return a variety of errors such as -EINVAL, -EEXIST, -ENOMEM or
-EKEYREVOKED.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>keyctl_session_to_parent(): use thread_group_empty() to check singlethreadness</title>
<updated>2010-05-27T16:12:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-26T21:43:23+00:00</published>
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No functional changes.

keyctl_session_to_parent() is the only user of signal-&gt;count which needs
the correct value.  Change it to use thread_group_empty() instead, this
must be strictly equivalent under tasklist, and imho looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>security: whitespace coding style fixes</title>
<updated>2010-04-23T00:10:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin P. Mattock</name>
<email>justinmattock@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-21T07:02:11+00:00</published>
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Whitespace coding style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>security: remove dead hook key_session_to_parent</title>
<updated>2010-04-12T02:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-07T19:15:19+00:00</published>
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Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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