[PATCH] Error during attempt to join key management session can leave semaphore pinned

The attached patch prevents an error during the key session joining operation
from hanging future joins in the D state [CAN-2005-2098].

The problem is that the error handling path for the KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING
operation has one error path that doesn't release the session management
semaphore. Further attempts to get the semaphore will then sleep for ever in
the D state.

This can happen in four situations, all involving an attempt to allocate a new
session keyring:

 (1) ENOMEM.

 (2) The users key quota being reached.

 (3) A keyring name that is an empty string.

 (4) A keyring name that is too long.

Any user may attempt this operation, and so any user can cause the problem to
occur.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Howells 2005-08-04 13:07:06 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6fb0caa423
commit bcf945d36f
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name)
keyring = keyring_alloc(name, tsk->uid, tsk->gid, 0, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(keyring)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(keyring);
goto error;
goto error2;
}
}
else if (IS_ERR(keyring)) {