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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2011-06-17 11:25:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-06-17 09:40:48 -0700 |
| commit | 879669961b11e7f40b518784863a259f735a72bf (patch) | |
| tree | 9bff5392e365caf656c9dd9be38f7471c182278c /kernel/kmod.c | |
| parent | eb96c925152fc289311e5d7e956b919e9b60ab53 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-879669961b11e7f40b518784863a259f735a72bf.tar.gz | |
KEYS/DNS: Fix ____call_usermodehelper() to not lose the session keyring
____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the
subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit
17f60a7da150 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits
to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with
prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes
all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called.
The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to
the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That
means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials
_before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the
system.
This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing
the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to
/sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to
instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail
with ENOKEY unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index ad6a81c58b44..47613dfb7b28 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data) */ set_user_nice(current, 0); - if (sub_info->init) { - retval = sub_info->init(sub_info); - if (retval) - goto fail; - } - retval = -ENOMEM; new = prepare_kernel_cred(current); if (!new) @@ -173,6 +167,14 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data) new->cap_inheritable); spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock); + if (sub_info->init) { + retval = sub_info->init(sub_info, new); + if (retval) { + abort_creds(new); + goto fail; + } + } + commit_creds(new); retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, @@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup); * context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called. */ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info, - int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info), + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new), void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info), void *data) { |