From 93b4a44f3ad69520d605aace3f3486b8eb754b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:18:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- security/keys/request_key.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file 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, { const struct cred *cred = current_cred(); key_serial_t prkey, sskey; - struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring; + struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring, + *session; char *argv[9], *envp[3], uid_str[12], gid_str[12]; char key_str[12], keyring_str[3][12]; char desc[20]; @@ -112,10 +113,12 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons, if (cred->tgcred->process_keyring) prkey = cred->tgcred->process_keyring->serial; - if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring) - sskey = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring)->serial; - else - sskey = cred->user->session_keyring->serial; + rcu_read_lock(); + session = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring); + if (!session) + session = cred->user->session_keyring; + sskey = session->serial; + rcu_read_unlock(); sprintf(keyring_str[2], "%d", sskey); -- GitLab