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From: ebiggers3@gmail.com (Eric Biggers)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: fix cred refcount leak in request_key_auth_new()
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:33:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170918183331.113261-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

In request_key_auth_new(), if alloc_key() or key_instantiate_and_link()
were to fail, we would leak a reference to the 'struct cred'.  Currently
this can only happen if alloc_key() fails to to allocate memory.  But it
still should be fixed, as it is a more severe bug waiting to happen.

Fixes: d84f4f992cbd ("CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 security/keys/request_key_auth.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
index afe9d22ab361..f2f29f13ecff 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ struct key *request_key_auth_new(struct key *target, const void *callout_info,
 	key_revoke(authkey);
 	key_put(authkey);
 error_alloc:
+	put_cred(rka->cred);
 	key_put(rka->target_key);
 	key_put(rka->dest_keyring);
 	kfree(rka->callout_info);
-- 
2.14.1.690.gbb1197296e-goog

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-18 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 18:33 Eric Biggers [this message]
2017-09-19 15:46 ` [PATCH] KEYS: fix cred refcount leak in request_key_auth_new() David Howells
2017-09-21 20:37   ` Eric Biggers

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