[PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Don't permit request_key() to construct a new keyring

[David Howells]

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.

Now the kernel gives an error:

	request_key("keyring", "#selinux,bdekeyring", "keyring", KEY_SPEC_USER_SESSION_KEYRING) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 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);

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