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:Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Shreyas Narayan <shrena@codeaurora.org> Change-Id: Ia2092d68ae4890e4bc7ac107a2492817f18eaa3b
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