Re: [PATCH] KEYS: Make the keyring cycle detector ignore other keyrings of the same name

Acked-by: James Morris <[email protected]>


On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, David Howells wrote:

> 
> 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: 0010:[<ffffffff811d39c3>] keyring_detect_cycle_iterator+0xe/0x1f
> 	...
> 	Stack:
> 	...
> 	Call Trace:
> 	 [<ffffffff811d3706>] search_nested_keyrings+0x76/0x2aa
> 	 [<ffffffff810fa7f4>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xdd/0x159
> 	 [<ffffffff81235669>] ? assoc_array_insert+0xab/0x929
> 	 [<ffffffff811e226d>] ? selinux_key_permission+0x2d/0x2f
> 	 [<ffffffff811dc94c>] ? security_key_permission+0x11/0x13
> 	 [<ffffffff811d3e36>] __key_link_check_live_key+0x50/0x5f
> 	 [<ffffffff811d39b5>] ? keyring_describe+0x7b/0x7b
> 	 [<ffffffff811d3f2b>] key_link+0x4e/0x85
> 	 [<ffffffff811d463a>] keyctl_keyring_link+0x60/0x81
> 	 [<ffffffff811d553d>] SyS_keyctl+0x65/0xe4
> 	 [<ffffffff81452edb>] 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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
> ---
> diff --git a/security/keys/keyring.c b/security/keys/keyring.c
> index d46cbc5e335e..2fb2576dc644 100644
> --- a/security/keys/keyring.c
> +++ b/security/keys/keyring.c
> @@ -1000,7 +1000,11 @@ static int keyring_detect_cycle_iterator(const void *object,
>  
>  	kenter("{%d}", key->serial);
>  
> -	BUG_ON(key != ctx->match_data);
> +	/* We might get a keyring with matching index-key that is nonetheless a
> +	 * different keyring. */
> +	if (key != ctx->match_data)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	ctx->result = ERR_PTR(-EDEADLK);
>  	return 1;
>  }
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James Morris
<[email protected]>