linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] KEYS: fix parsing invalid pkey info string

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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:29:18 -0500
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:     ebiggers@...nel.org, James Morris James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] KEYS: fix parsing invalid pkey info string

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 12:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Talking about the conflicting ones: Opt_hash checks that
> Opt_policydigest isn't set. But Opt_policydigest doesn't check that
> Opt_hash isn't set, so you can mix the two if you just do it in the
> right order.
> 
> But that's a separate bug, and doesn't seem to be a huge deal.
> 
> But it *is* an example of how bogus all of this stuff is. Clearly
> people weren't really paying attention when writing any of this code.

A file signature is more restrictive than just a file hash. I'll clean
up this and the other ugliness.

Mimi