From 93f27344ac019135dd5ff31a518f1ef2d9e4e4a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:33:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring If request_key() is used to find a keyring, only do the search part - don't do the construction part if the keyring was not found by the search. We don't really want keyrings in the negative instantiated state since the rejected/negative instantiation error value in the payload is unioned with keyring metadata. Signed-off-by: David Howells --- security/keys/request_key.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c index 486ef6fa393b..0d6253124278 100644 --- a/security/keys/request_key.c +++ b/security/keys/request_key.c @@ -440,6 +440,9 @@ static struct key *construct_key_and_link(struct keyring_search_context *ctx, kenter(""); + if (ctx->index_key.type == &key_type_keyring) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); + user = key_user_lookup(current_fsuid()); if (!user) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.4.3