4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>

commit ca4da5dd1f99fe9c59f1709fb43e818b18ad20e0 upstream.

__key_link_end is not freeing the associated array edit structure
and this leads to a 512 byte memory leak each time an identical
existing key is added with add_key().

The reason the add_key() system call returns okay is that
key_create_or_update() calls __key_link_begin() before checking to see
whether it can update a key directly rather than adding/replacing - which
it turns out it can.  Thus __key_link() is not called through
__key_instantiate_and_link() and __key_link_end() must cancel the edit.

CVE-2015-1333

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 security/keys/keyring.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/keyring.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyring.c
@@ -1181,9 +1181,11 @@ void __key_link_end(struct key *keyring,
        if (index_key->type == &key_type_keyring)
                up_write(&keyring_serialise_link_sem);
 
-       if (edit && !edit->dead_leaf) {
-               key_payload_reserve(keyring,
-                                   keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
+       if (edit) {
+               if (!edit->dead_leaf) {
+                       key_payload_reserve(keyring,
+                               keyring->datalen - KEYQUOTA_LINK_BYTES);
+               }
                assoc_array_cancel_edit(edit);
        }
        up_write(&keyring->sem);


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