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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> | 2011-02-07 13:36:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-02-07 14:04:00 -0800 |
| commit | 2edeaa34a6e3f2c43b667f6c4f7b27944b811695 (patch) | |
| tree | 37dd9156645491a86844ba9198fe05e4e6fe44c5 /kernel/cred.c | |
| parent | 257a65d79581880032e0bf0c452f4041b693664c (diff) | |
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CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failure
In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error. As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.
If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred->magic == 0. Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL. This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().
Fix these bugs by
(1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().
(2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cred.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cred.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 6a1aa004e376..fcf104bb5aa9 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -252,13 +252,13 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void) #endif atomic_set(&new->usage, 1); +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS + new->magic = CRED_MAGIC; +#endif if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) goto error; -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS - new->magic = CRED_MAGIC; -#endif return new; error: @@ -748,7 +748,11 @@ bool creds_are_invalid(const struct cred *cred) if (cred->magic != CRED_MAGIC) return true; #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX - if (selinux_is_enabled()) { + /* + * cred->security == NULL if security_cred_alloc_blank() or + * security_prepare_creds() returned an error. + */ + if (selinux_is_enabled() && cred->security) { if ((unsigned long) cred->security < PAGE_SIZE) return true; if ((*(u32 *)cred->security & 0xffffff00) == |