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    KEYS: get_instantiation_keyring() should inc the keyring refcount in all cases · 7a99333e
    David Howells authored
    commit 21279cfa upstream.
    
    The destination keyring specified to request_key() and co. is made available to
    the process that instantiates the key (the slave process started by
    /sbin/request-key typically).  This is passed in the request_key_auth struct as
    the dest_keyring member.
    
    keyctl_instantiate_key and keyctl_negate_key() call get_instantiation_keyring()
    to get the keyring to attach the newly constructed key to at the end of
    instantiation.  This may be given a specific keyring into which a link will be
    made later, or it may be asked to find the keyring passed to request_key().  In
    the former case, it returns a keyring with the refcount incremented by
    lookup_user_key(); in the latter case, it returns the keyring from the
    request_key_auth struct - and does _not_ increment the refcount.
    
    The latter case will eventually result in an oops when the keyring prematurely
    runs out of references and gets destroyed.  The effect may take some time to
    show up as the key is destroyed lazily.
    
    To fix this, the keyring returned by get_instantiation_keyring() must always
    have its refcount incremented, no matter where it comes from.
    
    This can be tested by setting /etc/request-key.conf to:
    
    #OP	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	CALLOUT INFO	PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...
    #======	=======	===============	===============	===============================
    create  *	test:*		*		|/bin/false %u %g %d %{user:_display}
    negate	*	*		*		/bin/keyctl negate %k 10 @u
    
    and then doing:
    
    	keyctl add user _display aaaaaaaa @u
            while keyctl request2 user test:x test:x @u &&
            keyctl list @u;
            do
                    keyctl request2 user test:x test:x @u;
                    sleep 31;
                    keyctl list @u;
            done
    
    which will oops eventually.  Changing the negate line to have @u rather than
    %S at the end is important as that forces the latter case by passing a special
    keyring ID rather than an actual keyring ID.
    Reported-by: default avatarAlexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarAlexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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