linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 075/155] Don't leak a key reference if request

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Message-Id: <7430eb701a76df0b6895ebcc94ee778e256b20e3.1428411004.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue,  7 Apr 2015 14:50:44 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 075/155] Don't leak a key reference if request_key() tries to use a revoked keyring

From: David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit d0709f1e66e8066c4ac6a54620ec116aa41937c0 upstream.

If a request_key() call to allocate and fill out a key attempts to insert the
key structure into a revoked keyring, the key will leak, using memory and part
of the user's key quota until the system reboots. This is from a failure of
construct_alloc_key() to decrement the key's reference count after the attempt
to insert into the requested keyring is rejected.

key_put() needs to be called in the link_prealloc_failed callpath to ensure
the unused key is released.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 security/keys/request_key.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index c411f9bb156b..5678616cde9d 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ link_check_failed:
 
 link_prealloc_failed:
 	mutex_unlock(&user->cons_lock);
+	key_put(key);
 	kleave(" = %d [prelink]", ret);
 	return ret;
 
-- 
2.3.4

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