From 995995378f996a8aa1cf4e4ddc0f79fbfd45496f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:08:33 +0100 Subject: KEYS: If install_session_keyring() is given a keyring, it should install it If install_session_keyring() is given a keyring, it should install it rather than just creating a new one anyway. This was accidentally broken in: commit d84f4f992cbd76e8f39c488cf0c5d123843923b1 Author: David Howells Date: Fri Nov 14 10:39:23 2008 +1100 Subject: CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials The impact of that commit is that pam_keyinit no longer works correctly if 'force' isn't specified against a login process. This is because: keyctl_get_keyring_ID(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, 0) now always creates a new session keyring and thus the check whether the session keyring and the user-session keyring are the same is always false. This leads pam_keyinit to conclude that a session keyring is installed and it shouldn't be revoked by pam_keyinit here if 'revoke' is specified. Any system that specifies 'force' against pam_keyinit in the PAM configuration files for login methods (login, ssh, su -l, kdm, etc.) is not affected since that bypasses the broken check and forces the creation of a new session keyring anyway (for which the revoke flag is not cleared) - and any subsequent call to pam_keyinit really does have a session keyring already installed, and so the check works correctly there. Reverting to the previous behaviour will cause the kernel to subscribe the process to the user-session keyring as its session keyring if it doesn't have a session keyring of its own. pam_keyinit will detect this and install a new session keyring anyway (and won't clear the revert flag). This can be tested by commenting out pam_keyinit in the /etc/pam.d files and running the following program a couple of times in a row: #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { key_serial_t uk, usk, sk; uk = keyctl_get_keyring_ID(KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING, 0); usk = keyctl_get_keyring_ID(KEY_SPEC_USER_SESSION_KEYRING, 0); sk = keyctl_get_keyring_ID(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, 0); printf("keys: %08x %08x %08x\n", uk, usk, sk); return 0; } Without the patch, I see: keys: 3884e281 24c4dfcf 22825f8e keys: 3884e281 24c4dfcf 068772be With the patch, I see: keys: 26be9c83 0e755ce0 0e755ce0 keys: 26be9c83 0e755ce0 0e755ce0 As can be seen, with the patch, the session keyring is the same as the user-session keyring each time; without the patch a new session keyring is generated each time. Reported-by: Greg Wettstein Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Greg Wettstein Signed-off-by: James Morris --- security/keys/process_keys.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'security/keys/process_keys.c') diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c index a3063eb3dc2..3bc6071ad63 100644 --- a/security/keys/process_keys.c +++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static int install_session_keyring(struct key *keyring) if (!new) return -ENOMEM; - ret = install_session_keyring_to_cred(new, NULL); + ret = install_session_keyring_to_cred(new, keyring); if (ret < 0) { abort_creds(new); return ret; -- cgit v1.2.3