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From: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
	Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
	Dave Young <ruirui.yang@linux.dev>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>, Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] crash_dump: Release reference to a keyring at correct time
Date: Sat,  2 May 2026 07:43:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260501234342.2518281-2-coiby.xu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501234342.2518281-1-coiby.xu@gmail.com>

It's incorrect to drop the reference only after adding one key to the
specified keyring. If there are many keys to be added, it can lead
"refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free" error and some keys will fail to
be added to the keyring. My testing shows the error can occur when there
are more than five keys.

Fixes: 62f17d9df692 ("crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel")
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
index cb875ddb6ba6..eac4f436a8d4 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ static int add_key_to_keyring(struct dm_crypt_key *dm_key,
 		kexec_dprintk("Error when adding key");
 	}
 
-	key_ref_put(keyring_ref);
 	return r;
 }
 
@@ -126,8 +125,10 @@ static int restore_dm_crypt_keys_to_thread_keyring(void)
 
 	keys_header_size = get_keys_header_size(key_count);
 	keys_header = kzalloc(keys_header_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!keys_header)
+	if (!keys_header) {
+		key_ref_put(keyring_ref);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	dm_crypt_keys_read((char *)keys_header, keys_header_size, &addr);
 
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ static int restore_dm_crypt_keys_to_thread_keyring(void)
 		add_key_to_keyring(key, keyring_ref);
 	}
 
+	key_ref_put(keyring_ref);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.54.0



  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-01 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-01 23:43 [PATCH v2 0/9] Bug fixes and enhancements for kdump LUKS support Coiby Xu
2026-05-01 23:43 ` Coiby Xu [this message]
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] crash_dump: Fix potential double free and UAF of keys_header Coiby Xu
2026-05-06 12:28   ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-08 12:33     ` Coiby Xu
2026-05-08 20:06       ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-10  0:14         ` Coiby Xu
2026-05-12  5:42           ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] crash_dump: Disallow writing to dm-crypt configfs during kexec_file_load syscall Coiby Xu
2026-05-06 13:56   ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-08 13:08     ` Coiby Xu
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] crash_dump: Read the number of dm-crypt keys from reserved memory Coiby Xu
2026-05-06 14:18   ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] crash_dump: Free temporary dm-crypt keys_header buffer in kdump kernel Coiby Xu
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] crash_dump: Only use kexec_dprintk during the kexec_file_load syscall Coiby Xu
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] crash_dump: Improve readability of config_keys_restore_store Coiby Xu
2026-05-06 14:33   ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG enabled Coiby Xu
2026-05-06 16:09   ` Sourabh Jain
2026-05-01 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list Coiby Xu

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