From: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 47f9e4c924025c5be87959d3335e66fcbb7f6b5c ]
The key which gets cached in task structure from a kernel thread does not get invalidated even after expiry. Due to which, a new key request from kernel thread will be served with the cached key if it's present in task struct irrespective of the key validity. The change is to not cache key in task_struct when key requested from kernel thread so that kernel thread gets a valid key on every key request.
The problem has been seen with the cifs module doing DNS lookups from a kernel thread and the results getting pinned by being attached to that kernel thread's cache - and thus not something that can be easily got rid of. The cache would ordinarily be cleared by notify-resume, but kernel threads don't do that.
This isn't seen with AFS because AFS is doing request_key() within the kernel half of a user thread - which will do notify-resume.
Fixes: 7743c48e54ee ("keys: Cache result of request_key*() temporarily in task_struct") Signed-off-by: Bharath SM bharathsm@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko@kernel.org cc: Shyam Prasad N nspmangalore@gmail.com cc: Steve French smfrench@gmail.com cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAGypqWw951d=zYRbdgNR4snUDvJhWL=q3=WOyh7HhSJupjz2v... Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- security/keys/request_key.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c index 2da4404276f0f..07a0ef2baacd8 100644 --- a/security/keys/request_key.c +++ b/security/keys/request_key.c @@ -38,9 +38,12 @@ static void cache_requested_key(struct key *key) #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS_REQUEST_CACHE struct task_struct *t = current;
- key_put(t->cached_requested_key); - t->cached_requested_key = key_get(key); - set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME); + /* Do not cache key if it is a kernel thread */ + if (!(t->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { + key_put(t->cached_requested_key); + t->cached_requested_key = key_get(key); + set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME); + } #endif }