[PATCH 3.16 048/204] KEYS: fix key refcount leak in keyctl_assume_authority()

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.52-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 884bee0215fcc239b30c062c37ca29077005e064 upstream.

In keyctl_assume_authority(), if keyctl_change_reqkey_auth() were to
fail, we would leak the reference to the 'authkey'.  Currently this can
only happen if prepare_creds() fails to allocate memory.  But it still
should be fixed, as it is a more severe bug waiting to happen.

This patch also moves the read of 'authkey->serial' to before the
reference to the authkey is dropped.  Doing the read after dropping the
reference is very fragile because it assumes we still hold another
reference to the key.  (Which we do, in current->cred->request_key_auth,
but there's no reason not to write it in the "obviously correct" way.)

Fixes: d84f4f992cbd ("CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 security/keys/keyctl.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1401,11 +1401,9 @@ long keyctl_assume_authority(key_serial_
 	}
 
 	ret = keyctl_change_reqkey_auth(authkey);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		goto error;
+	if (ret == 0)
+		ret = authkey->serial;
 	key_put(authkey);
-
-	ret = authkey->serial;
 error:
 	return ret;
 }