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KEYS: Make request key instantiate the per-user keyrings
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Make request_key() instantiate the per-user keyrings so that it doesn't oops
if it needs to get hold of the user session keyring because there isn't a
session keyring in place.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger.nijlunsing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 10, 2008
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions security/keys/internal.h
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Expand Up @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ extern key_ref_t search_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,

extern struct key *find_keyring_by_name(const char *name, bool skip_perm_check);

extern int install_user_keyrings(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern int install_thread_keyring(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern int install_process_keyring(struct task_struct *tsk);

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion security/keys/process_keys.c
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Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct key_user root_key_user = {
/*
* install user and user session keyrings for a particular UID
*/
static int install_user_keyrings(struct task_struct *tsk)
int install_user_keyrings(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct user_struct *user = tsk->user;
struct key *uid_keyring, *session_keyring;
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions security/keys/request_key.c
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Expand Up @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,

kenter("{%d},{%d},%s", key->serial, authkey->serial, op);

ret = install_user_keyrings(tsk);
if (ret < 0)
goto error_alloc;

/* allocate a new session keyring */
sprintf(desc, "_req.%u", key->serial);

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