CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds

Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/security/keys/permission.c b/security/keys/permission.c
index baf3d5f..13c3616 100644
--- a/security/keys/permission.c
+++ b/security/keys/permission.c
@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref,
 			struct task_struct *context,
 			key_perm_t perm)
 {
-	struct cred *cred = context->cred;
+	const struct cred *cred;
 	struct key *key;
 	key_perm_t kperm;
 	int ret;
 
 	key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	cred = __task_cred(context);
+
 	/* use the second 8-bits of permissions for keys the caller owns */
 	if (key->uid == cred->fsuid) {
 		kperm = key->perm >> 16;
@@ -43,10 +46,7 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref,
 			goto use_these_perms;
 		}
 
-		spin_lock(&cred->lock);
 		ret = groups_search(cred->group_info, key->gid);
-		spin_unlock(&cred->lock);
-
 		if (ret) {
 			kperm = key->perm >> 8;
 			goto use_these_perms;
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref,
 	kperm = key->perm;
 
 use_these_perms:
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
 	/* use the top 8-bits of permissions for keys the caller possesses
 	 * - possessor permissions are additive with other permissions
 	 */
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index ce8ac60..212601e 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -412,10 +412,13 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 				  struct task_struct *context)
 {
 	struct request_key_auth *rka;
+	struct cred *cred;
 	key_ref_t key_ref, ret, err;
 
 	might_sleep();
 
+	cred = get_task_cred(context);
+
 	/* we want to return -EAGAIN or -ENOKEY if any of the keyrings were
 	 * searchable, but we failed to find a key or we found a negative key;
 	 * otherwise we want to return a sample error (probably -EACCES) if
@@ -428,9 +431,9 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 	err = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 
 	/* search the thread keyring first */
-	if (context->cred->thread_keyring) {
+	if (cred->thread_keyring) {
 		key_ref = keyring_search_aux(
-			make_key_ref(context->cred->thread_keyring, 1),
+			make_key_ref(cred->thread_keyring, 1),
 			context, type, description, match);
 		if (!IS_ERR(key_ref))
 			goto found;
@@ -495,9 +498,9 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 		}
 	}
 	/* or search the user-session keyring */
-	else if (context->cred->user->session_keyring) {
+	else if (cred->user->session_keyring) {
 		key_ref = keyring_search_aux(
-			make_key_ref(context->cred->user->session_keyring, 1),
+			make_key_ref(cred->user->session_keyring, 1),
 			context, type, description, match);
 		if (!IS_ERR(key_ref))
 			goto found;
@@ -519,20 +522,20 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 	 * search the keyrings of the process mentioned there
 	 * - we don't permit access to request_key auth keys via this method
 	 */
-	if (context->cred->request_key_auth &&
+	if (cred->request_key_auth &&
 	    context == current &&
 	    type != &key_type_request_key_auth
 	    ) {
 		/* defend against the auth key being revoked */
-		down_read(&context->cred->request_key_auth->sem);
+		down_read(&cred->request_key_auth->sem);
 
-		if (key_validate(context->cred->request_key_auth) == 0) {
-			rka = context->cred->request_key_auth->payload.data;
+		if (key_validate(cred->request_key_auth) == 0) {
+			rka = cred->request_key_auth->payload.data;
 
 			key_ref = search_process_keyrings(type, description,
 							  match, rka->context);
 
-			up_read(&context->cred->request_key_auth->sem);
+			up_read(&cred->request_key_auth->sem);
 
 			if (!IS_ERR(key_ref))
 				goto found;
@@ -549,7 +552,7 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 				break;
 			}
 		} else {
-			up_read(&context->cred->request_key_auth->sem);
+			up_read(&cred->request_key_auth->sem);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -557,6 +560,7 @@ key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 	key_ref = ret ? ret : err;
 
 found:
+	put_cred(cred);
 	return key_ref;
 
 } /* end search_process_keyrings() */