From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiggers3@gmail.com (Eric Biggers) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:36:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: fix key refcount leak in keyctl_assume_authority() Message-ID: <20170918183612.113941-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-security-module.vger.kernel.org From: Eric Biggers In keyctl_assume_authority(), if keyctl_change_reqkey_auth() were to fail, we would leak the reference to the 'authkey'. Currently this can only happen if prepare_creds() fails to allocate memory. But it still should be fixed, as it is a more severe bug waiting to happen. This patch also moves the read of 'authkey->serial' to before the reference to the authkey is dropped. Doing the read after dropping the reference is very fragile because it assumes we still hold another reference to the key. (Which we do, in current->cred->request_key_auth, but there's no reason not to write it in the "obviously correct" way.) Fixes: d84f4f992cbd ("CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- security/keys/keyctl.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c index 6a82090c7fc1..552e4460683b 100644 --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c @@ -1411,11 +1411,9 @@ long keyctl_assume_authority(key_serial_t id) } ret = keyctl_change_reqkey_auth(authkey); - if (ret < 0) - goto error; + if (ret == 0) + ret = authkey->serial; key_put(authkey); - - ret = authkey->serial; error: return ret; } -- 2.14.1.690.gbb1197296e-goog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html