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From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>, Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] asymmetric_keys: check asymmetric_key_ids() for NULL before dereference
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:16:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260429181629.110802-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)

asymmetric_key_ids() returns key->payload.data[asym_key_ids], which can
be NULL for keys parsed by the PKCS#8 parser (pkcs8_parser.c explicitly
stores NULL in prep->payload.data[asym_key_ids]).

key_or_keyring_common() in restrict.c and find_asymmetric_key() in
asymmetric_type.c both dereference this return value without checking
for NULL. An unprivileged user can trigger a NULL pointer dereference
in key_or_keyring_common() by creating a PKCS#8 key, restricting a
keyring with key_or_keyring:<pkcs8_serial>, and adding an X.509 cert
to the restricted keyring. CONFIG_PKCS8_PRIVATE_KEY_PARSER=y is
required.

 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
 RIP: 0010:key_or_keyring_common (crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c:205 crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c:279)
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __key_create_or_update (security/keys/key.c:884)
  key_create_or_update (security/keys/key.c:1021)
  __do_sys_add_key (security/keys/keyctl.c:134)
  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
  </TASK>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Add a NULL check in find_asymmetric_key(), mirroring the existing
pattern in asymmetric_match_key_ids() and asymmetric_key_describe().
In key_or_keyring_common(), skip the trusted key matching when it
has no key IDs and fall through to the check_dest path.

Fixes: 7d30198ee24f ("keys: X.509 public key issuer lookup without AKID")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c | 2 ++
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c        | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ struct key *find_asymmetric_key(struct key *keyring,
 	if (id_0 && id_1) {
 		const struct asymmetric_key_ids *kids = asymmetric_key_ids(key);

+		if (!kids)
+			goto reject;
 		if (!kids->id[1]) {
 			pr_debug("First ID matches, but second is missing\n");
 			goto reject;
diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c
@@ -243,10 +243,14 @@ static int key_or_keyring_common(struct key *dest_keyring,
 			if (IS_ERR(key))
 				key = NULL;
 		} else if (trusted->type == &key_type_asymmetric) {
+			const struct asymmetric_key_ids *kids;
 			const struct asymmetric_key_id **signer_ids;

-			signer_ids = (const struct asymmetric_key_id **)
-				asymmetric_key_ids(trusted)->id;
+			kids = asymmetric_key_ids(trusted);
+			if (!kids)
+				goto skip_trusted;
+
+			signer_ids = (const struct asymmetric_key_id **)kids->id;

 			/*
 			 * The auth_ids come from the candidate key (the
@@ -290,6 +294,7 @@ static int key_or_keyring_common(struct key *dest_keyring,
 		}
 	}

+skip_trusted:
 	if (check_dest && !key) {
 		/* See if the destination has a key that signed this one. */
 		key = find_asymmetric_key(dest_keyring, sig->auth_ids[0],
--
2.39.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-29 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-29 18:16 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-05-01  5:37 ` [PATCH] asymmetric_keys: check asymmetric_key_ids() for NULL before dereference Ignat Korchagin
2026-05-01  7:48   ` Weiming Shi
2026-05-02  8:40     ` Ignat Korchagin

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