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Commit d9b37a1a authored by Sasha Levin's avatar Sasha Levin Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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KES: close race between key lookup and freeing

When a key is being garbage collected, it's key->user would get put before
the ->destroy() callback is called, where the key is removed from it's
respective tracking structures.

This leaves a key hanging in a semi-invalid state which leaves a window open
for a different task to try an access key->user. An example is
find_keyring_by_name() which would dereference key->user for a key that is
in the process of being garbage collected (where key->user was freed but
->destroy() wasn't called yet - so it's still present in the linked list).

This would cause either a panic, or corrupt memory.

Fixes CVE-2014-9529.

Git-commit: a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c
Git-repo: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShreyas Narayan <shrena@codeaurora.org>
Change-Id: Ia2092d68ae4890e4bc7ac107a2492817f18eaa3b
parent ffd74153
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