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>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] asymmetric_keys: check asymmetric_key_ids() for NULL before dereference
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 09:33:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260502163328.696098-2-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.
The following bash script can reproduce the issue:
#!/bin/bash
modprobe pkcs8_key_parser 2>/dev/null
openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:1024 \
-out /tmp/poc.pem 2>/dev/null
openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in /tmp/poc.pem \
-outform DER -out /tmp/poc.p8
openssl req -new -x509 -key /tmp/poc.pem -outform DER \
-out /tmp/poc.der -days 365 -subj "/CN=Test" \
-addext "subjectKeyIdentifier=hash" \
-addext "authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always" 2>/dev/null
PKCS8_ID=$(keyctl padd asymmetric pkcs8key @s < /tmp/poc.p8)
KR=$(keyctl newring test_kr @s)
keyctl restrict_keyring $KR asymmetric "key_or_keyring:$PKCS8_ID"
keyctl padd asymmetric trigger $KR < /tmp/poc.der
rm -f /tmp/poc.pem /tmp/poc.p8 /tmp/poc.der
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>
---
v2: add bash reproducer to commit message (Ignat)
crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c | 2 ++
crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 9 +++++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
index 16a7ae16593c..22f04656d529 100644
--- 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
index 86292965f493..ccf1084f720e 100644
--- 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],
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-02 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-02 16:33 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-05-05 9:34 ` [PATCH v2] asymmetric_keys: check asymmetric_key_ids() for NULL before dereference Herbert Xu
2026-06-22 4:16 ` Herbert Xu
2026-06-22 14:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-06-22 20:21 ` Ignat Korchagin
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