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KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL payload with nonzero length
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698799 commit 5649645 upstream. sys_add_key() and the KEYCTL_UPDATE operation of sys_keyctl() allowed a NULL payload with nonzero length to be passed to the key type's ->preparse(), ->instantiate(), and/or ->update() methods. Various key types including asymmetric, cifs.idmap, cifs.spnego, and pkcs7_test did not handle this case, allowing an unprivileged user to trivially cause a NULL pointer dereference (kernel oops) if one of these key types was present. Fix it by doing the copy_from_user() when 'plen' is nonzero rather than when '_payload' is non-NULL, causing the syscall to fail with EFAULT as expected when an invalid buffer is specified. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
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security/keys/keyctl.c

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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(add_key, const char __user *, _type,
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/* pull the payload in if one was supplied */
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payload = NULL;
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if (_payload) {
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if (plen) {
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ret = -ENOMEM;
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payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
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if (!payload) {
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ long keyctl_update_key(key_serial_t id,
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/* pull the payload in if one was supplied */
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payload = NULL;
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if (_payload) {
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if (plen) {
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ret = -ENOMEM;
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payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL);
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if (!payload)

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