linux-kernel - [PATCH] KEYS: request_key() should return -ENOKEY if the constructed key is negative

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Date:	Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:08:27 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: request_key() should return -ENOKEY if the constructed
	key is negative

request_key() should return -ENOKEY if the key it constructs has been
negatively instantiated.

Without this, request_key() can return an unusable key to its caller, and if
the caller then does key_validate() that won't catch the problem.

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

 security/keys/request_key.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 0d26f68..0088dd8 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -537,6 +537,8 @@ int wait_for_key_construction(struct key *key, bool intr)
 			  intr ? TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE : TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
+	if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_NEGATIVE, &key->flags))
+		return -ENOKEY;
 	return key_validate(key);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_key_construction);

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