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<title>KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyring</title>
<updated>2010-07-05T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshiyuki Okajima</name>
<email>toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
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<published>2010-04-30T13:32:13+00:00</published>
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commit cea7daa3589d6b550546a8c8963599f7c1a3ae5c upstream.

find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a keyring that has had its reference
count reduced to zero, and is thus ready to be freed.  This then allows the
dead keyring to be brought back into use whilst it is being destroyed.

The following timeline illustrates the process:

|(cleaner)                           (user)
|
| free_user(user)                    sys_keyctl()
|  |                                  |
|  key_put(user-&gt;session_keyring)     keyctl_get_keyring_ID()
|  ||	//=&gt; keyring-&gt;usage = 0        |
|  |schedule_work(&amp;key_cleanup_task)   lookup_user_key()
|  ||                                   |
|  kmem_cache_free(,user)               |
|  .                                    |[KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING]
|  .                                    install_user_keyrings()
|  .                                    ||
| key_cleanup() [&lt;= worker_thread()]    ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_lock(&amp;key_serial_lock)]        |[mutex_lock(&amp;key_user_keyr..mutex)]
|  |                                    ||
|  atomic_read() == 0                   ||
|  |{ rb_ease(&amp;key-&gt;serial_node,) }     ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_unlock(&amp;key_serial_lock)]      |find_keyring_by_name()
|  |                                    |||
|  keyring_destroy(keyring)             ||[read_lock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   |||
|  |[write_lock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]    ||atomic_inc(&amp;keyring-&gt;usage)
|  |.                                   ||| *** GET freeing keyring ***
|  |.                                   ||[read_unlock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   ||
|  |list_del()                          |[mutex_unlock(&amp;key_user_k..mutex)]
|  ||                                   |
|  |[write_unlock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]  ** INVALID keyring is returned **
|  |                                    .
|  kmem_cache_free(,keyring)            .
|                                       .
|                                       atomic_dec(&amp;keyring-&gt;usage)
v                                         *** DESTROYED ***
TIME

If CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y then we may see the following message generated:

	=============================================================================
	BUG key_jar: Poison overwritten
	-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

	INFO: 0xffff880197a7e200-0xffff880197a7e200. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
	INFO: Allocated in key_alloc+0x10b/0x35f age=25 cpu=1 pid=5086
	INFO: Freed in key_cleanup+0xd0/0xd5 age=12 cpu=1 pid=10
	INFO: Slab 0xffffea000592cb90 objects=16 used=2 fp=0xffff880197a7e200 flags=0x200000000000c3
	INFO: Object 0xffff880197a7e200 @offset=512 fp=0xffff880197a7e300

	Bytes b4 0xffff880197a7e1f0:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	  Object 0xffff880197a7e200:  6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b jkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Alternatively, we may see a system panic happen, such as:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000001
	IP: [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
	PGD 6b2b4067 PUD 6a80d067 PMD 0
	Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
	last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded
	CPU 1
	...
	Pid: 31245, comm: su Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-nofixed-nodebug #2 D2089/PRIMERGY
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
	RSP: 0018:ffff88006af3bd98  EFLAGS: 00010002
	RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88007d19900b
	RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff81828430
	RBP: ffffffff81828430 R08: ffff88000a293750 R09: 0000000000000000
	R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000100000 R12: 00000000000080d0
	R13: 00000000000080d0 R14: 0000000000000296 R15: ffffffff810f20ce
	FS:  00007f97116bc700(0000) GS:ffff88000a280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
	CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
	CR2: 0000000000000001 CR3: 000000006a91c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
	DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
	DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
	Process su (pid: 31245, threadinfo ffff88006af3a000, task ffff8800374414c0)
	Stack:
	 0000000512e0958e 0000000000008000 ffff880037f8d180 0000000000000001
	 0000000000000000 0000000000008001 ffff88007d199000 ffffffff810f20ce
	 0000000000008000 ffff88006af3be48 0000000000000024 ffffffff810face3
	Call Trace:
	 [&lt;ffffffff810f20ce&gt;] ? get_empty_filp+0x70/0x12f
	 [&lt;ffffffff810face3&gt;] ? do_filp_open+0x145/0x590
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ce208&gt;] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x2a/0x33
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ce43c&gt;] ? unmap_region+0xd3/0xe2
	 [&lt;ffffffff810e4393&gt;] ? virt_to_head_page+0x9/0x2d
	 [&lt;ffffffff81103916&gt;] ? alloc_fd+0x69/0x10e
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ef4ed&gt;] ? do_sys_open+0x56/0xfc
	 [&lt;ffffffff81008a02&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
	Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 c6 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 4c 8b 04 25 60 e8 00 00 48 8b 45 00 49 01 c0 49 8b 18 48 85 db 74 0d 48 63 45 18 &lt;48&gt; 8b 04 03 49 89 00 eb 14 4c 89 f9 83 ca ff 44 89 e6 48 89 ef
	RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9

This problem is that find_keyring_by_name does not confirm that the keyring is
valid before accepting it.

Skipping keyrings that have been reduced to a zero count seems the way to go.
To this end, use atomic_inc_not_zero() to increment the usage count and skip
the candidate keyring if that returns false.

The following script _may_ cause the bug to happen, but there's no guarantee
as the window of opportunity is small:

	#!/bin/sh
	LOOP=100000
	USER=dummy_user
	/bin/su -c "exit;" $USER || { /usr/sbin/adduser -m $USER; add=1; }
	for ((i=0; i&lt;LOOP; i++))
	do
		/bin/su -c "echo '$i' &gt; /dev/null" $USER
	done
	(( add == 1 )) &amp;&amp; /usr/sbin/userdel -r $USER
	exit

Note that the nominated user must not be in use.

An alternative way of testing this may be:

	for ((i=0; i&lt;100000; i++))
	do
		keyctl session foo /bin/true || break
	done &gt;&amp;/dev/null

as that uses a keyring named "foo" rather than relying on the user and
user-session named keyrings.

Reported-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit cea7daa3589d6b550546a8c8963599f7c1a3ae5c upstream.

find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a keyring that has had its reference
count reduced to zero, and is thus ready to be freed.  This then allows the
dead keyring to be brought back into use whilst it is being destroyed.

The following timeline illustrates the process:

|(cleaner)                           (user)
|
| free_user(user)                    sys_keyctl()
|  |                                  |
|  key_put(user-&gt;session_keyring)     keyctl_get_keyring_ID()
|  ||	//=&gt; keyring-&gt;usage = 0        |
|  |schedule_work(&amp;key_cleanup_task)   lookup_user_key()
|  ||                                   |
|  kmem_cache_free(,user)               |
|  .                                    |[KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING]
|  .                                    install_user_keyrings()
|  .                                    ||
| key_cleanup() [&lt;= worker_thread()]    ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_lock(&amp;key_serial_lock)]        |[mutex_lock(&amp;key_user_keyr..mutex)]
|  |                                    ||
|  atomic_read() == 0                   ||
|  |{ rb_ease(&amp;key-&gt;serial_node,) }     ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_unlock(&amp;key_serial_lock)]      |find_keyring_by_name()
|  |                                    |||
|  keyring_destroy(keyring)             ||[read_lock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   |||
|  |[write_lock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]    ||atomic_inc(&amp;keyring-&gt;usage)
|  |.                                   ||| *** GET freeing keyring ***
|  |.                                   ||[read_unlock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   ||
|  |list_del()                          |[mutex_unlock(&amp;key_user_k..mutex)]
|  ||                                   |
|  |[write_unlock(&amp;keyring_name_lock)]  ** INVALID keyring is returned **
|  |                                    .
|  kmem_cache_free(,keyring)            .
|                                       .
|                                       atomic_dec(&amp;keyring-&gt;usage)
v                                         *** DESTROYED ***
TIME

If CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y then we may see the following message generated:

	=============================================================================
	BUG key_jar: Poison overwritten
	-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

	INFO: 0xffff880197a7e200-0xffff880197a7e200. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
	INFO: Allocated in key_alloc+0x10b/0x35f age=25 cpu=1 pid=5086
	INFO: Freed in key_cleanup+0xd0/0xd5 age=12 cpu=1 pid=10
	INFO: Slab 0xffffea000592cb90 objects=16 used=2 fp=0xffff880197a7e200 flags=0x200000000000c3
	INFO: Object 0xffff880197a7e200 @offset=512 fp=0xffff880197a7e300

	Bytes b4 0xffff880197a7e1f0:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	  Object 0xffff880197a7e200:  6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b jkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Alternatively, we may see a system panic happen, such as:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000001
	IP: [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
	PGD 6b2b4067 PUD 6a80d067 PMD 0
	Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
	last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded
	CPU 1
	...
	Pid: 31245, comm: su Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-nofixed-nodebug #2 D2089/PRIMERGY
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
	RSP: 0018:ffff88006af3bd98  EFLAGS: 00010002
	RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88007d19900b
	RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff81828430
	RBP: ffffffff81828430 R08: ffff88000a293750 R09: 0000000000000000
	R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000100000 R12: 00000000000080d0
	R13: 00000000000080d0 R14: 0000000000000296 R15: ffffffff810f20ce
	FS:  00007f97116bc700(0000) GS:ffff88000a280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
	CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
	CR2: 0000000000000001 CR3: 000000006a91c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
	DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
	DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
	Process su (pid: 31245, threadinfo ffff88006af3a000, task ffff8800374414c0)
	Stack:
	 0000000512e0958e 0000000000008000 ffff880037f8d180 0000000000000001
	 0000000000000000 0000000000008001 ffff88007d199000 ffffffff810f20ce
	 0000000000008000 ffff88006af3be48 0000000000000024 ffffffff810face3
	Call Trace:
	 [&lt;ffffffff810f20ce&gt;] ? get_empty_filp+0x70/0x12f
	 [&lt;ffffffff810face3&gt;] ? do_filp_open+0x145/0x590
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ce208&gt;] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x2a/0x33
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ce43c&gt;] ? unmap_region+0xd3/0xe2
	 [&lt;ffffffff810e4393&gt;] ? virt_to_head_page+0x9/0x2d
	 [&lt;ffffffff81103916&gt;] ? alloc_fd+0x69/0x10e
	 [&lt;ffffffff810ef4ed&gt;] ? do_sys_open+0x56/0xfc
	 [&lt;ffffffff81008a02&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
	Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 c6 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 4c 8b 04 25 60 e8 00 00 48 8b 45 00 49 01 c0 49 8b 18 48 85 db 74 0d 48 63 45 18 &lt;48&gt; 8b 04 03 49 89 00 eb 14 4c 89 f9 83 ca ff 44 89 e6 48 89 ef
	RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810e61a3&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9

This problem is that find_keyring_by_name does not confirm that the keyring is
valid before accepting it.

Skipping keyrings that have been reduced to a zero count seems the way to go.
To this end, use atomic_inc_not_zero() to increment the usage count and skip
the candidate keyring if that returns false.

The following script _may_ cause the bug to happen, but there's no guarantee
as the window of opportunity is small:

	#!/bin/sh
	LOOP=100000
	USER=dummy_user
	/bin/su -c "exit;" $USER || { /usr/sbin/adduser -m $USER; add=1; }
	for ((i=0; i&lt;LOOP; i++))
	do
		/bin/su -c "echo '$i' &gt; /dev/null" $USER
	done
	(( add == 1 )) &amp;&amp; /usr/sbin/userdel -r $USER
	exit

Note that the nominated user must not be in use.

An alternative way of testing this may be:

	for ((i=0; i&lt;100000; i++))
	do
		keyctl session foo /bin/true || break
	done &gt;&amp;/dev/null

as that uses a keyring named "foo" rather than relying on the user and
user-session named keyrings.

Reported-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Fix garbage collector</title>
<updated>2009-09-14T23:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-14T16:26:13+00:00</published>
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Fix a number of problems with the new key garbage collector:

 (1) A rogue semicolon in keyring_gc() was causing the initial count of dead
     keys to be miscalculated.

 (2) A missing return in keyring_gc() meant that under certain circumstances,
     the keyring semaphore would be unlocked twice.

 (3) The key serial tree iterator (key_garbage_collector()) part of the garbage
     collector has been modified to:

     (a) Complete each scan of the keyrings before setting the new timer.

     (b) Only set the new timer for keys that have yet to expire.  This means
         that the new timer is now calculated correctly, and the gc doesn't
         get into a loop continually scanning for keys that have expired, and
         preventing other things from happening, like RCU cleaning up the old
         keyring contents.

     (c) Perform an extra scan if any keys were garbage collected in this one
     	 as a key might become garbage during a scan, and (b) could mean we
     	 don't set the timer again.

 (4) Made key_schedule_gc() take the time at which to do a collection run,
     rather than the time at which the key expires.  This means the collection
     of dead keys (key type unregistered) can happen immediately.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Fix a number of problems with the new key garbage collector:

 (1) A rogue semicolon in keyring_gc() was causing the initial count of dead
     keys to be miscalculated.

 (2) A missing return in keyring_gc() meant that under certain circumstances,
     the keyring semaphore would be unlocked twice.

 (3) The key serial tree iterator (key_garbage_collector()) part of the garbage
     collector has been modified to:

     (a) Complete each scan of the keyrings before setting the new timer.

     (b) Only set the new timer for keys that have yet to expire.  This means
         that the new timer is now calculated correctly, and the gc doesn't
         get into a loop continually scanning for keys that have expired, and
         preventing other things from happening, like RCU cleaning up the old
         keyring contents.

     (c) Perform an extra scan if any keys were garbage collected in this one
     	 as a key might become garbage during a scan, and (b) could mean we
     	 don't set the timer again.

 (4) Made key_schedule_gc() take the time at which to do a collection run,
     rather than the time at which the key expires.  This means the collection
     of dead keys (key type unregistered) can happen immediately.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]</title>
<updated>2009-09-02T11:29:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-02T08:14:00+00:00</published>
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Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys.  This involved
erasing all links to such keys from keyrings that point to them.  At that
point, the key will be deleted in the normal manner.

Keyrings from which garbage collection occurs are shrunk and their quota
consumption reduced as appropriate.

Dead keys (for which the key type has been removed) will be garbage collected
immediately.

Revoked and expired keys will hang around for a number of seconds, as set in
/proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay before being automatically removed.  The default
is 5 minutes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys.  This involved
erasing all links to such keys from keyrings that point to them.  At that
point, the key will be deleted in the normal manner.

Keyrings from which garbage collection occurs are shrunk and their quota
consumption reduced as appropriate.

Dead keys (for which the key type has been removed) will be garbage collected
immediately.

Revoked and expired keys will hang around for a number of seconds, as set in
/proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay before being automatically removed.  The default
is 5 minutes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>keys: skip keys from another user namespace</title>
<updated>2009-02-27T01:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serue@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-27T00:27:55+00:00</published>
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When listing keys, do not return keys belonging to the
same uid in another user namespace.  Otherwise uid 500
in another user namespace will return keyrings called
uid.500 for another user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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When listing keys, do not return keys belonging to the
same uid in another user namespace.  Otherwise uid 500
in another user namespace will return keyrings called
uid.500 for another user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials</title>
<updated>2008-11-13T23:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-13T23:39:23+00:00</published>
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Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), -&gt;capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), -&gt;capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), -&gt;capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), -&gt;bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), -&gt;task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), -&gt;cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred-&gt;security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), -&gt;cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred-&gt;security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), -&gt;cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), -&gt;task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), -&gt;task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), -&gt;task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), -&gt;key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), -&gt;key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), -&gt;capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), -&gt;capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), -&gt;capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), -&gt;bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), -&gt;task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), -&gt;cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred-&gt;security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), -&gt;cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred-&gt;security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), -&gt;cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), -&gt;task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), -&gt;task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), -&gt;task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), -&gt;key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), -&gt;key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Disperse linux/key_ui.h</title>
<updated>2008-11-13T23:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-13T23:39:13+00:00</published>
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Disperse the bits of linux/key_ui.h as the reason they were put here (keyfs)
didn't get in.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Disperse the bits of linux/key_ui.h as the reason they were put here (keyfs)
didn't get in.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>keys: don't generate user and user session keyrings unless they're accessed</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T08:01:31+00:00</published>
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Don't generate the per-UID user and user session keyrings unless they're
explicitly accessed.  This solves a problem during a login process whereby
set*uid() is called before the SELinux PAM module, resulting in the per-UID
keyrings having the wrong security labels.

This also cures the problem of multiple per-UID keyrings sometimes appearing
due to PAM modules (including pam_keyinit) setuiding and causing user_structs
to come into and go out of existence whilst the session keyring pins the user
keyring.  This is achieved by first searching for extant per-UID keyrings
before inventing new ones.

The serial bound argument is also dropped from find_keyring_by_name() as it's
not currently made use of (setting it to 0 disables the feature).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Cc: &lt;arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in&gt;
Cc: &lt;dwalsh@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Don't generate the per-UID user and user session keyrings unless they're
explicitly accessed.  This solves a problem during a login process whereby
set*uid() is called before the SELinux PAM module, resulting in the per-UID
keyrings having the wrong security labels.

This also cures the problem of multiple per-UID keyrings sometimes appearing
due to PAM modules (including pam_keyinit) setuiding and causing user_structs
to come into and go out of existence whilst the session keyring pins the user
keyring.  This is achieved by first searching for extant per-UID keyrings
before inventing new ones.

The serial bound argument is also dropped from find_keyring_by_name() as it's
not currently made use of (setting it to 0 disables the feature).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Cc: &lt;arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in&gt;
Cc: &lt;dwalsh@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>keys: check starting keyring as part of search</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Coffman</name>
<email>kwc@citi.umich.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T08:01:22+00:00</published>
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Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what
we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching.

The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be created in
its process session keyring.  The user then does an su to another user and
starts a new process, B.  The two processes now share the same process session
keyring.

Process B does an NFS access which results in an upcall to gssd.  When gssd
attempts to instantiate the context key (to be linked into the process session
keyring), it is denied access even though it has an authorization key.

The order of calls is:

   keyctl_instantiate_key()
      lookup_user_key()				    (the default: case)
         search_process_keyrings(current)
	    search_process_keyrings(rka-&gt;context)   (recursive call)
	       keyring_search_aux()

keyring_search_aux() verifies the keys and keyrings underneath the top-level
keyring it is given, but that top-level keyring is neither fully validated nor
checked to see if it is the thing being searched for.

This patch changes keyring_search_aux() to:
1) do more validation on the top keyring it is given and
2) check whether that top-level keyring is the thing being searched for

Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Coffman &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what
we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching.

The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be created in
its process session keyring.  The user then does an su to another user and
starts a new process, B.  The two processes now share the same process session
keyring.

Process B does an NFS access which results in an upcall to gssd.  When gssd
attempts to instantiate the context key (to be linked into the process session
keyring), it is denied access even though it has an authorization key.

The order of calls is:

   keyctl_instantiate_key()
      lookup_user_key()				    (the default: case)
         search_process_keyrings(current)
	    search_process_keyrings(rka-&gt;context)   (recursive call)
	       keyring_search_aux()

keyring_search_aux() verifies the keys and keyrings underneath the top-level
keyring it is given, but that top-level keyring is neither fully validated nor
checked to see if it is the thing being searched for.

This patch changes keyring_search_aux() to:
1) do more validation on the top keyring it is given and
2) check whether that top-level keyring is the thing being searched for

Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Coffman &lt;kwc@citi.umich.edu&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[AF_RXRPC]: Key facility changes for AF_RXRPC</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T22:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-26T22:46:23+00:00</published>
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Export the keyring key type definition and document its availability.

Add alternative types into the key's type_data union to make it more useful.
Not all users necessarily want to use it as a list_head (AF_RXRPC doesn't, for
example), so make it clear that it can be used in other ways.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Export the keyring key type definition and document its availability.

Add alternative types into the key's type_data union to make it more useful.
Not all users necessarily want to use it as a list_head (AF_RXRPC doesn't, for
example), so make it clear that it can be used in other ways.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] security/keys/*: user kmemdup()</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sesterhenn</name>
<email>snakebyte@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:33:47+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn &lt;snakebyte@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn &lt;snakebyte@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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