From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org (open list:SECURITY
SUBSYSTEM)
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/8] KEYS: Change the type of key->quotalen to unsigned int
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:25:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019142516.300040-2-jarkko@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019142516.300040-1-jarkko@kernel.org>
key_alloc() and key_payload_reserve() set key->quotalen with values,
which can be larger than USHRT_MAX.
Change the type from unsigned short to unsigned int.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/key.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index e40b5267658f..6729536a76b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ struct key {
kuid_t uid;
kgid_t gid;
key_perm_t perm; /* access permissions */
- unsigned short quotalen; /* length added to quota */
+ unsigned int quotalen; /* length added to quota */
unsigned short datalen; /* payload data length
* - may not match RCU dereferenced payload
* - payload should contain own length
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 14:25 [RFC PATCH 0/8] KEYS: rhashtable bug fixes Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 14:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2026-10-19 15:37 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] KEYS: Change the type of key->quotalen to unsigned int sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Change the type of key->datalen " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:33 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] KEYS: Reject @desclen values over U16_MAX in key_alloc() Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:35 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:32 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] KEYS: Prevent overflow of user->qnkeys " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 16:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Prevent overflow of quota " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:40 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:33 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 16:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] KEYS: Prevent overflow of user->qnbytes " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:41 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:34 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 16:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] KEYS: Reject @datalen values over INT_MAX Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:43 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:35 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 16:21 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Verify the key identity in __keyctl_unlink Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 15:55 ` David Howells
2026-10-19 16:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 16:23 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] KEYS: rhashtable bug fixes Jarkko Sakkinen
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