[PATCH] KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL payload with nonzero length

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Sat Apr 01 2017 - 17:37:39 EST


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

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.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/keys/keyctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 52c34532c785..57447cd29154 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(add_key, const char __user *, _type,
/* pull the payload in if one was supplied */
payload = NULL;

- if (_payload) {
+ if (plen) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!payload) {
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ long keyctl_update_key(key_serial_t id,

/* pull the payload in if one was supplied */
payload = NULL;
- if (_payload) {
+ if (plen) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!payload)
--
2.12.1