[PATCH 1/1] x509: only prefix strip raw serial numbers

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Mon Sep 14 2015 - 04:13:48 EST


In the commit below we added support for use of the subKeyId rather than
the raw serial number when forming the in kernel ID:

commit dd2f6c4481debfa389c1f2b2b1d5bd6449c42611
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Oct 3 16:17:02 2014 +0100

X.509: If available, use the raw subjKeyId to form the key description

However as part of this we subject the subjKeyId to the below prefix strip:

if (srlen > 1 && *q == 0) {
srlen--;
q++;
}

This leads us to truncate the id for kernel module signing keys and to
fail to recognise our own modules:

[ 1.572423] Loaded X.509 cert 'Build time autogenerated kernel
key: 62a7c3d2da278be024da4af8652c071f3fea33'
[ 1.646153] Request for unknown module key 'Build time autogenerated
kernel key: 0062a7c3d2da278be024da4af8652c071f3fea33' err -11

Only apply the prefix strip to raw serial number.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

While we are here the prefix strip seems pretty odd, only removing
just one 0 byte. Is this meant to strip them all (as a while),
or was the intent to strip leading 0s from the hex form? Do we
have any background to this change?

-apw

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
index 24f17e6..0e16d5e 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ static int x509_key_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
} else {
srlen = cert->raw_serial_size;
q = cert->raw_serial;
- }
- if (srlen > 1 && *q == 0) {
- srlen--;
- q++;
+ if (srlen > 1 && *q == 0) {
+ srlen--;
+ q++;
+ }
}

ret = -ENOMEM;
--
2.5.0

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