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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-04-23 13:18:00 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-24 14:31:25 -0400
commit93b4a44f3ad69520d605aace3f3486b8eb754b96 (patch)
tree8eb946db950ccc6aee1d00b226739f44141dd310 /security
parentccdb40048b2972f10bdc944913c0e0ee26b5d1f2 (diff)
keys: fix an RCU warning
Fix the following RCU warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- security/keys/request_key.c:116 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! This was caused by doing: [root@andromeda ~]# keyctl newring fred @s 539196288 [root@andromeda ~]# keyctl request2 user a a 539196288 request_key: Required key not available Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/request_key.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 03fe63ed55bd..ea97c3120d66 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
68{ 68{
69 const struct cred *cred = current_cred(); 69 const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
70 key_serial_t prkey, sskey; 70 key_serial_t prkey, sskey;
71 struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring; 71 struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring,
72 *session;
72 char *argv[9], *envp[3], uid_str[12], gid_str[12]; 73 char *argv[9], *envp[3], uid_str[12], gid_str[12];
73 char key_str[12], keyring_str[3][12]; 74 char key_str[12], keyring_str[3][12];
74 char desc[20]; 75 char desc[20];
@@ -112,10 +113,12 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
112 if (cred->tgcred->process_keyring) 113 if (cred->tgcred->process_keyring)
113 prkey = cred->tgcred->process_keyring->serial; 114 prkey = cred->tgcred->process_keyring->serial;
114 115
115 if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring) 116 rcu_read_lock();
116 sskey = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring)->serial; 117 session = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring);
117 else 118 if (!session)
118 sskey = cred->user->session_keyring->serial; 119 session = cred->user->session_keyring;
120 sskey = session->serial;
121 rcu_read_unlock();
119 122
120 sprintf(keyring_str[2], "%d", sskey); 123 sprintf(keyring_str[2], "%d", sskey);
121 124