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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2019-08-19 16:02:01 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-08-19 09:43:57 -0700
commit555df336c754ac9de1af9a5c72508918b3796b18 (patch)
tree74c2cd33ccf1b26ab9720d563d8057ca68c6c6fd /include/linux/key.h
parentd1abaeb3be7b5fa6d7a1fbbd2e14e3310005c4c1 (diff)
keys: Fix description size
The maximum key description size is 4095. Commit f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management") inadvertantly reduced that to 255 and made sizes between 256 and 4095 work weirdly, and any size whereby size & 255 == 0 would cause an assertion in __key_link_begin() at the following line: BUG_ON(index_key->desc_len == 0); This can be fixed by simply increasing the size of desc_len in struct keyring_index_key to a u16. Note the argument length test in keyutils only checked empty descriptions and descriptions with a size around the limit (ie. 4095) and not for all the values in between, so it missed this. This has been addressed and https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=066bf56807c26cd3045a25f355b34c1d8a20a5aa now exhaustively tests all possible lengths of type, description and payload and then some. The assertion failure looks something like: kernel BUG at security/keys/keyring.c:1245! ... RIP: 0010:__key_link_begin+0x88/0xa0 ... Call Trace: key_create_or_update+0x211/0x4b0 __x64_sys_add_key+0x101/0x200 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 It can be triggered by: keyctl add user "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" a @s Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management") Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/key.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/key.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 91f391cd272e..50028338a4cc 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ struct keyring_index_key {
union {
struct {
#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN /* Put desc_len at the LSB of x */
- u8 desc_len;
- char desc[sizeof(long) - 1]; /* First few chars of description */
+ u16 desc_len;
+ char desc[sizeof(long) - 2]; /* First few chars of description */
#else
- char desc[sizeof(long) - 1]; /* First few chars of description */
- u8 desc_len;
+ char desc[sizeof(long) - 2]; /* First few chars of description */
+ u16 desc_len;
#endif
};
unsigned long x;