keys: Handle there being no fallback destination keyring for request_key()
When request_key() is called, without there being any standard process
keyrings on which to fall back if a destination keyring is not specified, an
oops is liable to occur when construct_alloc_key() calls down_write() on
dest_keyring's semaphore.
Due to function inlining this may be seen as an oops in down_write() as called
from request_key_and_link().
This situation crops up during boot, where request_key() is called from within
the kernel (such as in CIFS mounts) where nobody is actually logged in, and so
PAM has not had a chance to create a session keyring and user keyrings to act
as the fallback.
To fix this, make construct_alloc_key() not attempt to cache a key if there is
no fallback key if no destination keyring is given specifically.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 22a3158..03fe63e 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -311,7 +311,8 @@
set_bit(KEY_FLAG_USER_CONSTRUCT, &key->flags);
- down_write(&dest_keyring->sem);
+ if (dest_keyring)
+ down_write(&dest_keyring->sem);
/* attach the key to the destination keyring under lock, but we do need
* to do another check just in case someone beat us to it whilst we
@@ -322,10 +323,12 @@
if (!IS_ERR(key_ref))
goto key_already_present;
- __key_link(dest_keyring, key);
+ if (dest_keyring)
+ __key_link(dest_keyring, key);
mutex_unlock(&key_construction_mutex);
- up_write(&dest_keyring->sem);
+ if (dest_keyring)
+ up_write(&dest_keyring->sem);
mutex_unlock(&user->cons_lock);
*_key = key;
kleave(" = 0 [%d]", key_serial(key));