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Sasha Levin dc4a2f40de KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing
commit a3a8784454 upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2015-02-20 00:49:41 +00:00
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