linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] keys: Fix key->sem vs mmap

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Message-ID: <1437197.1585570598@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:16:38 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com,
        longman@...hat.com, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] keys: Fix key->sem vs mmap_sem issue when reading key

Hi Linus,

Here's a couple of patches that fix a circular dependency between holding
key->sem and mm->mmap_sem when reading data from a key.  One potential
issue is that a filesystem looking to use a key inside, say, ->readpages()
could deadlock if the key being read is the key that's required and the
buffer the key is being read into is on a page that needs to be fetched.

The case actually detected is a bit more involved - with a filesystem
calling request_key() and locking the target keyring for write - which
could be being read.

[Note: kbuild spotted a compiler(?) warning that I've not seen before,
 complaining "The scope of the variable 'oldxdr' can be reduced.
 [variableScope]".  It's unhappy that a variable that's declared at the top
 of the function hasn't been moved into an interior for-loop.  Is this
 something we're now requiring?  Anyway, I'd prefer to fix that with a
 follow up patch through the net tree rather than go for a 9th iteration on
 these patches.]

Thanks,
David
---
The following changes since commit 1b649e0bcae71c118c1333e02249a7510ba7f70a:

  Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net (2020-03-25 13:58:05 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git tags/keys-fixes-20200329

for you to fetch changes up to 4f0882491a148059a52480e753b7f07fc550e188:

  KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read (2020-03-29 12:40:41 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Keyrings fixes

----------------------------------------------------------------
Waiman Long (2):
      KEYS: Don't write out to userspace while holding key semaphore
      KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read

 include/keys/big_key-type.h               |   2 +-
 include/keys/user-type.h                  |   3 +-
 include/linux/key-type.h                  |   2 +-
 net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c                |   2 +-
 net/rxrpc/key.c                           |  27 +++-----
 security/keys/big_key.c                   |  11 ++--
 security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c  |   7 +-
 security/keys/internal.h                  |  12 ++++
 security/keys/keyctl.c                    | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 security/keys/keyring.c                   |   6 +-
 security/keys/request_key_auth.c          |   7 +-
 security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm1.c |  14 +---
 security/keys/user_defined.c              |   5 +-
 13 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)