This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Don't leak a key reference if request_key() tries to use a revoked keyring

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: don-t-leak-a-key-reference-if-request_key-tries-to-use-a-revoked-keyring.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From d0709f1e66e8066c4ac6a54620ec116aa41937c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: David Jeffery djeffery@redhat.com Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:45:31 +0000 Subject: Don't leak a key reference if request_key() tries to use a revoked keyring

From: David Jeffery djeffery@redhat.com

commit d0709f1e66e8066c4ac6a54620ec116aa41937c0 upstream.

If a request_key() call to allocate and fill out a key attempts to insert the key structure into a revoked keyring, the key will leak, using memory and part of the user's key quota until the system reboots. This is from a failure of construct_alloc_key() to decrement the key's reference count after the attempt to insert into the requested keyring is rejected.

key_put() needs to be called in the link_prealloc_failed callpath to ensure the unused key is released.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery djeffery@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: James Morris james.l.morris@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- security/keys/request_key.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/security/keys/request_key.c +++ b/security/keys/request_key.c @@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ link_check_failed:

link_prealloc_failed: mutex_unlock(&user->cons_lock); + key_put(key); kleave(" = %d [prelink]", ret); return ret;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from djeffery@redhat.com are

queue-3.18/don-t-leak-a-key-reference-if-request_key-tries-to-use-a-revoked-keyring.patch