From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

Running the following program as an unprivileged user exhausts kernel
memory by leaking thread keyrings:

        #include <keyutils.h>

        int main()
        {
                for (;;)
                        
keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING);
        }

Fix it by only creating a new thread keyring if there wasn't one before,
just as we do for process keyrings.

Fixes: d84f4f992cbd ("CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials")
Cc: [email protected] # 2.6.29+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
---
 security/keys/keyctl.c       | 13 +++++--------
 security/keys/process_keys.c |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 52c34532c785..6f3440530835 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1253,8 +1253,8 @@ long keyctl_reject_key(key_serial_t id, unsigned timeout, 
unsigned error,
  * Read or set the default keyring in which request_key() will cache keys and
  * return the old setting.
  *
- * If a process keyring is specified then this will be created if it doesn't
- * yet exist.  The old setting will be returned if successful.
+ * If a thread or process keyring is specified then it will be created if it
+ * doesn't yet exist.  The old setting will be returned if successful.
  */
 long keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(int reqkey_defl)
 {
@@ -1273,17 +1273,14 @@ long keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(int reqkey_defl)
        switch (reqkey_defl) {
        case KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING:
                ret = install_thread_keyring_to_cred(new);
-               if (ret < 0)
+               if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST)
                        goto error;
                goto set;
 
        case KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_PROCESS_KEYRING:
                ret = install_process_keyring_to_cred(new);
-               if (ret < 0) {
-                       if (ret != -EEXIST)
-                               goto error;
-                       ret = 0;
-               }
+               if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST)
+                       goto error;
                goto set;
 
        case KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_DEFAULT:
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index b6fdd22205b1..9e5337876e52 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ int install_thread_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *new)
 {
        struct key *keyring;
 
+       if (new->thread_keyring)
+               return -EEXIST;
+
        keyring = keyring_alloc("_tid", new->uid, new->gid, new,
                                KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_VIEW,
                                KEY_ALLOC_QUOTA_OVERRUN,
-- 
2.12.1

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