KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring
If request_key() is used to find a keyring, only do the search part - don't
do the construction part if the keyring was not found by the search. We
don't really want keyrings in the negative instantiated state since the
rejected/negative instantiation error value in the payload is unioned with
keyring metadata.
Now the kernel gives an error:
request_key("keyring", "#selinux,bdekeyring", "keyring", KEY_SPEC_USER_SESSION_KEYRING) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 486ef6f..0d62531 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@
kenter("");
+ if (ctx->index_key.type == &key_type_keyring)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+
user = key_user_lookup(current_fsuid());
if (!user)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);