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    keys: check starting keyring as part of search · dceba994
    Kevin Coffman authored
    Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what
    we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching.
    
    The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be created in
    its process session keyring.  The user then does an su to another user and
    starts a new process, B.  The two processes now share the same process session
    keyring.
    
    Process B does an NFS access which results in an upcall to gssd.  When gssd
    attempts to instantiate the context key (to be linked into the process session
    keyring), it is denied access even though it has an authorization key.
    
    The order of calls is:
    
       keyctl_instantiate_key()
          lookup_user_key()				    (the default: case)
             search_process_keyrings(current)
    	    search_process_keyrings(rka->context)   (recursive call)
    	       keyring_search_aux()
    
    keyring_search_aux() verifies the keys and keyrings underneath the top-level
    keyring it is given, but that top-level keyring is neither fully validated nor
    checked to see if it is the thing being searched for.
    
    This patch changes keyring_search_aux() to:
    1) do more validation on the top keyring it is given and
    2) check whether that top-level keyring is the thing being searched for
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
    Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
    Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
    Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
    Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
    Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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