FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 13923d0865ca96312197962522e88bc0aedccd74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 12:37:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload

A key of type "encrypted" references a "master key" which is used to
encrypt and decrypt the encrypted key's payload.  However, when we
accessed the master key's payload, we failed to handle the case where
the master key has been revoked, which sets the payload pointer to NULL.
Note that request_key() *does* skip revoked keys, but there is still a
window where the key can be revoked before we acquire its semaphore.

Fix it by checking for a NULL payload, treating it like a key which was
already revoked at the time it was requested.

This was an issue for master keys of type "user" only.  Master keys can
also be of type "trusted", but those cannot be revoked.

Fixes: 7e70cb497850 ("keys: add new key-type encrypted")
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    [v2.6.38+]
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Safford <safford@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
index 69855ba0d3b3..535db141f4da 100644
--- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
+++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
@@ -309,6 +309,13 @@ static struct key *request_user_key(const char *master_desc, const u8 **master_k
 
 	down_read(&ukey->sem);
 	upayload = user_key_payload_locked(ukey);
+	if (!upayload) {
+		/* key was revoked before we acquired its semaphore */
+		up_read(&ukey->sem);
+		key_put(ukey);
+		ukey = ERR_PTR(-EKEYREVOKED);
+		goto error;
+	}
 	*master_key = upayload->data;
 	*master_keylen = upayload->datalen;
 error: