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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:52:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3785.1491234722@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170401233908.20786-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>

Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote:

> @@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ int install_thread_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *new)
>  {
>  	struct key *keyring;
>  
> +	if (new->thread_keyring)
> +		return -EEXIST;
> +
>  	keyring = keyring_alloc("_tid", new->uid, new->gid, new,
>  				KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_VIEW,
>  				KEY_ALLOC_QUOTA_OVERRUN,

It would probably be better just to return 0 and change the comment on the
function to say that it sets a thread keyring if there isn't one already.
Same for the process keyring.

David

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-03 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-01 23:39 [PATCH] KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings Eric Biggers
2017-04-03 15:52 ` David Howells [this message]

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