From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 7.3 21/38] keys: Protect the type name while describing a key
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:00:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028165940.937369208@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028165940.394092994@linuxfoundation.org>
7.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
commit fced7238b7e80cf8aa688d5af976e4aa6e33c329 upstream.
keyctl_describe_key() must keep the key type's name alive until
kasprintf() has consumed it. The retained key reference keeps the key
and its description alive, but does not pin the module providing its
type. The name is passed to kasprintf() without holding key->sem.
kvasprintf() uses the saved name pointer in two formatting passes, with
a GFP_KERNEL allocation between them. With AF_RXRPC=m, a task that
passes View permission before type retirement can overlap a privileged
module unload in this order:
1. KEYCTL_DESCRIBE looks up the key, saves key->type->name in the
kasprintf() arguments and completes the first formatting pass.
2. While the formatter is delayed before its second pass,
af_rxrpc_exit() calls unregister_key_type(), which removes the type
from the registry and waits for key_gc_keytype().
3. The collector takes key->sem for writing, retypes the retained key
to key_type_dead and completes retirement. Unregistration and module
exit return, allowing free_module() to release the type and name.
4. The formatter resumes its second pass and reads the saved name from
released module storage, which can fault in string().
Hold key->sem for reading across kasprintf(). The collector then cannot
retype the key or complete retirement until both formatting passes have
finished. If retirement wins the lock first, formatting uses the core
key_type_dead name instead. Release the semaphore immediately after
kasprintf(), including on allocation failure, before copying to
userspace.
Oops report as below:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff8054794
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
RIP: 0010:string+0x23f/0x470
Call Trace:
vsnprintf+0x330/0x1110
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aa9d4437893f ("KEYS: Fix the size of the key description passed to/from userspace")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/pm-key-management-objects-candidate-0009-v4-6b537c5732fd957c33fa@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
security/keys/keyctl.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -677,12 +677,14 @@ okay:
/* calculate how much information we're going to return */
ret = -ENOMEM;
+ down_read(&key->sem);
infobuf = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
"%s;%d;%d;%08x;",
key->type->name,
from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), key->uid),
from_kgid_munged(current_user_ns(), key->gid),
key->perm);
+ up_read(&key->sem);
if (!infobuf)
goto error2;
infolen = strlen(infobuf);
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2026-10-28 16:59 [PATCH 7.3 00/38] 7.3.1-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 01/38] genirq/proc: Fix missing CPU header in /proc/interrupts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 02/38] mm/damon/core: error damos_commit_quota_goal() for zero target_value Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 03/38] Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 04/38] tools/dma: fix building with O= Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 05/38] tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when updating modules in persistent instances Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 06/38] tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 07/38] tracing: Reject incomplete event filter expressions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 08/38] tracing: Save the event file instead of the compatible histogram Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 09/38] tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 10/38] tracing: Add the bucket size to expr_field_str() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 11/38] tracing: Fix 64-bit and signed histogram fields on 32-bit kernels Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 7.3 12/38] tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 13/38] tracing/syscalls: Use copy_from_user for the faultable syscall buffer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 14/38] io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-29 7:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2026-10-29 9:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 15/38] io_uring/wait: wake real-time waiters from hard interrupt context Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 16/38] io_uring/net: keep recv buffer select length within MAX_RW_COUNT Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 17/38] io_uring/waitid: prevent cancel reference wrap Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 18/38] io_uring: end the drain when the drain request completes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 19/38] keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 20/38] keys: Check the authorization payload in process keyring searches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 22/38] keys: make keyring indexes independent of kernel addresses Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 23/38] keys: Protect the read method check against type removal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 24/38] KEYS: Fix key_reject_and_link() race with keyring restriction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 25/38] KEYS: trusted: Fix blob allocation size in tpm2_key_decode() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 26/38] keys/trusted_keys: return immediately after TPM unseal failure Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 27/38] asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 28/38] ftrace: Initialize modname and offset in print_rec() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 29/38] coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 30/38] signal: only SIGKILL and the freezers interrupt a coredumping task Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 31/38] io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 32/38] signal: dont retarget shared signals in a dying thread group Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 33/38] ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 34/38] fork: release the files of a failed fork after sched_cancel_fork() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 35/38] exit: hang up the tty before closing the files Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 36/38] coredump: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting coredumps Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 37/38] pid_namespace: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting the reaper Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7.3 38/38] signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-28 18:08 ` [PATCH 7.3 00/38] 7.3.1-rc1 review Ronald Warsow
2026-10-28 19:40 ` Brett A C Sheffield
2026-10-29 4:01 ` Takeshi Ogasawara
2026-10-29 5:00 ` Peter Schneider
2026-10-29 12:06 ` Barry K. Nathan
2026-10-29 13:53 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-10-29 14:12 ` Ron Economos
2026-10-29 14:42 ` SJ Park
2026-10-29 15:17 ` Shuah Khan
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