Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/12] KEYS: PGP-based public key signature verification

[Roberto Sassu]

On 11/12/2018 1:43 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > - switch from session to user keyring (Roberto Sassu)
> > - search user keyring only if no keyring was provided, so that the
> >    trustworthiness of the signature depends on the type of keyring
> >    containing the key used for signature verification (Roberto Sassu)
>
> Er.  No.  You should search the session keyring.  This may contain a link to
> the user keyring (pam_keyinit emplaces one).

Ok. Unfortunately, I was encountering some issues:
---
[   20.477851] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at 
mm/slab.h:421
[   20.486987] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 739, name: keyctl
[   20.497393] 4 locks held by keyctl/739:
[   20.500056]  #0: 00000000bd9d7a18 (key_types_sem){....}, at: 
key_type_lookup+0x16/0x80
[   20.503065]  #1: 000000009f5fc7ec (&type->lock_class){....}, at: 
__key_link_begin+0x3f/0x100
[   20.506062]  #2: 00000000cc8bdc61 (key_construction_mutex){....}, at: 
__key_instantiate_and_link+0x30/0x150
[   20.509335]  #3: 000000001dff342f (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: 
pgp_verify_sig+0x57e/0x6a0
[   20.511998] Preemption disabled at:
[   20.512015] [<ffffffff818bc86f>] __mutex_lock+0x5f/0x940
[   20.514885] CPU: 7 PID: 739 Comm: keyctl Not tainted 4.20.0-rc2+ #1138
[   20.516911] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), 
BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[   20.519577] Call Trace:
[   20.520384]  dump_stack+0x5c/0x7b
[   20.521423]  ? __mutex_lock+0x5f/0x940
[   20.523296]  ___might_sleep+0x12f/0x180
[   20.524458]  __kmalloc+0x24c/0x300
[   20.525505]  ? asymmetric_key_hex_to_key_id.part.8+0x30/0x80
[   20.527181]  ? keyring_search_aux+0xbb/0xf0
[   20.528430]  asymmetric_key_hex_to_key_id.part.8+0x30/0x80
[   20.530025]  ? asymmetric_key_id_partial+0x40/0x40
[   20.531422]  asymmetric_key_match_preparse+0x6b/0x90
[   20.532868]  keyring_search+0x79/0xd0
[   20.533938]  ? keyring_alloc+0x80/0x80
[   20.535068]  pgp_verify_sig+0x5d1/0x6a0
[   20.536212]  ? pgp_verify_sig+0x57e/0x6a0
[   20.537389]  ? pgp_key_parse+0x2a0/0x2a0
[   20.538565]  ? __mutex_lock+0x89/0x940
[   20.539701]  ? pgp_test_instantiate+0xb9/0x150 [pgp_test]
[   20.541276]  pgp_test_instantiate+0xb9/0x150 [pgp_test]
---

> You need to consider what it is that the patch trying to achieve.

I understood that the purpose is to check PGP signatures with built-in
keys or keys provided by the user. Since using the session keyring
caused the issue I reported, I thought it was ok to use the user
keyring.

Just a note: the original patches were relying on KEY_FLAG_TRUSTED to
determine if a key is trusted; now the trustworthiness depends on the
type of keyring passed to pgp_verify_sig(). I removed the additional key
search in the user (session) keyring to prevent that signature
verification is done with a key provided by the user even when the
caller of pgp_verify_sig() expects that a trusted key is used. The
search in the session keyring is done if the caller of pgp_verify_sig()
sets the keyring pointer to NULL.

Roberto


> David

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