[GIT PULL] keys: Fix key->sem vs mmap_sem issue when reading key

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Mar 30 2020 - 08:16:50 EST


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
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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)

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Keyrings fixes

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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(-)