From 879669961b11e7f40b518784863a259f735a72bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:25:59 +0100 Subject: KEYS/DNS: Fix ____call_usermodehelper() to not lose the session keyring ____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit 17f60a7da150 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called. The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials _before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the system. This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to /sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail with ENOKEY unconditionally. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- include/linux/kmod.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h index d4a5c84c503d..0da38cf7db7b 100644 --- a/include/linux/kmod.h +++ b/include/linux/kmod.h @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; #endif -struct key; +struct cred; struct file; enum umh_wait { @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct subprocess_info { char **envp; enum umh_wait wait; int retval; - int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info); + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new); void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info); void *data; }; @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv, /* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info, - int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info), + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new), void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info), void *data); @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info); static inline int call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait, - int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info), + int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new), void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data) { struct subprocess_info *info; -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151