linux-kernel - [PATCH] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning

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Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:14:10 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning

Fix the following RCU warning:

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
security/keys/request_key.c:116 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by keyctl/5372:
 #0:  (key_types_sem){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff811a4e3d>] key_type_lookup+0x1c/0x70

stack backtrace:
Pid: 5372, comm: keyctl Not tainted 2.6.34-rc3-cachefs #150
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810515f8>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [<ffffffff811a9220>] call_sbin_request_key+0x156/0x2b6
 [<ffffffff811a4c66>] ? __key_instantiate_and_link+0xb1/0xdc
 [<ffffffff811a4cd3>] ? key_instantiate_and_link+0x42/0x5f
 [<ffffffff811a96b8>] ? request_key_auth_new+0x17b/0x1f3
 [<ffffffff811a8e00>] ? request_key_and_link+0x271/0x400
 [<ffffffff810aba6f>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xe1/0x118
 [<ffffffff811a8f1a>] request_key_and_link+0x38b/0x400
 [<ffffffff811a7b72>] sys_request_key+0xf7/0x14a
 [<ffffffff81052227>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
 [<ffffffff81393f5c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
 [<ffffffff81001eeb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This was caused by doing:

	[root@...romeda ~]# keyctl newring fred @s
	539196288
	[root@...romeda ~]# keyctl request2 user a a 539196288
	request_key: Required key not available

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 security/keys/request_key.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 03fe63e..544e932 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
 	if (cred->tgcred->process_keyring)
 		prkey = cred->tgcred->process_keyring->serial;
 
-	if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring)
+	if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		sskey = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring)->serial;
-	else
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+	} else {
 		sskey = cred->user->session_keyring->serial;
+	}
 
 	sprintf(keyring_str[2], "%d", sskey);
 

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