KEYS: Make the session and process keyrings per-thread

Make the session keyring per-thread rather than per-process, but still
inherited from the parent thread to solve a problem with PAM and gdm.

The problem is that join_session_keyring() will reject attempts to change the
session keyring of a multithreaded program but gdm is now multithreaded before
it gets to the point of starting PAM and running pam_keyinit to create the
session keyring.  See:

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49211

The reason that join_session_keyring() will only change the session keyring
under a single-threaded environment is that it's hard to alter the other
thread's credentials to effect the change in a multi-threaded program.  The
problems are such as:

 (1) How to prevent two threads both running join_session_keyring() from
     racing.

 (2) Another thread's credentials may not be modified directly by this process.

 (3) The number of threads is uncertain whilst we're not holding the
     appropriate spinlock, making preallocation slightly tricky.

 (4) We could use TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and key_replace_session_keyring() to get
     another thread to replace its keyring, but that means preallocating for
     each thread.

A reasonable way around this is to make the session keyring per-thread rather
than per-process and just document that if you want a common session keyring,
you must get it before you spawn any threads - which is the current situation
anyway.

Whilst we're at it, we can the process keyring behave in the same way.  This
means we can clean up some of the ickyness in the creds code.

Basically, after this patch, the session, process and thread keyrings are about
inheritance rules only and not about sharing changes of keyring.

Reported-by: Mantas M. <grawity@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 44 deletions

diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index 178b8c3b130..9de5dc59827 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -169,9 +169,8 @@ static int install_thread_keyring(void)
 int install_process_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *new)
 {
 	struct key *keyring;
-	int ret;
 
-	if (new->tgcred->process_keyring)
+	if (new->process_keyring)
 		return -EEXIST;
 
 	keyring = keyring_alloc("_pid", new->uid, new->gid,
@@ -179,17 +178,8 @@ int install_process_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *new)
 	if (IS_ERR(keyring))
 		return PTR_ERR(keyring);
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&new->tgcred->lock);
-	if (!new->tgcred->process_keyring) {
-		new->tgcred->process_keyring = keyring;
-		keyring = NULL;
-		ret = 0;
-	} else {
-		ret = -EEXIST;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_irq(&new->tgcred->lock);
-	key_put(keyring);
-	return ret;
+	new->process_keyring = keyring;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -230,7 +220,7 @@ int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *cred, struct key *keyring)
 	/* create an empty session keyring */
 	if (!keyring) {
 		flags = KEY_ALLOC_QUOTA_OVERRUN;
-		if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring)
+		if (cred->session_keyring)
 			flags = KEY_ALLOC_IN_QUOTA;
 
 		keyring = keyring_alloc("_ses", cred->uid, cred->gid,
@@ -242,17 +232,11 @@ int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *cred, struct key *keyring)
 	}
 
 	/* install the keyring */
-	spin_lock_irq(&cred->tgcred->lock);
-	old = cred->tgcred->session_keyring;
-	rcu_assign_pointer(cred->tgcred->session_keyring, keyring);
-	spin_unlock_irq(&cred->tgcred->lock);
-
-	/* we're using RCU on the pointer, but there's no point synchronising
-	 * on it if it didn't previously point to anything */
-	if (old) {
-		synchronize_rcu();
+	old = cred->session_keyring;
+	rcu_assign_pointer(cred->session_keyring, keyring);
+
+	if (old)
 		key_put(old);
-	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -367,9 +351,9 @@ key_ref_t search_my_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 	}
 
 	/* search the process keyring second */
-	if (cred->tgcred->process_keyring) {
+	if (cred->process_keyring) {
 		key_ref = keyring_search_aux(
-			make_key_ref(cred->tgcred->process_keyring, 1),
+			make_key_ref(cred->process_keyring, 1),
 			cred, type, description, match, no_state_check);
 		if (!IS_ERR(key_ref))
 			goto found;
@@ -388,12 +372,10 @@ key_ref_t search_my_process_keyrings(struct key_type *type,
 	}
 
 	/* search the session keyring */
-	if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring) {
+	if (cred->session_keyring) {
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		key_ref = keyring_search_aux(
-			make_key_ref(rcu_dereference(
-					     cred->tgcred->session_keyring),
-				     1),
+			make_key_ref(rcu_dereference(cred->session_keyring), 1),
 			cred, type, description, match, no_state_check);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
@@ -563,7 +545,7 @@ try_again:
 		break;
 
 	case KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING:
-		if (!cred->tgcred->process_keyring) {
+		if (!cred->process_keyring) {
 			if (!(lflags & KEY_LOOKUP_CREATE))
 				goto error;
 
@@ -575,13 +557,13 @@ try_again:
 			goto reget_creds;
 		}
 
-		key = cred->tgcred->process_keyring;
+		key = cred->process_keyring;
 		atomic_inc(&key->usage);
 		key_ref = make_key_ref(key, 1);
 		break;
 
 	case KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING:
-		if (!cred->tgcred->session_keyring) {
+		if (!cred->session_keyring) {
 			/* always install a session keyring upon access if one
 			 * doesn't exist yet */
 			ret = install_user_keyrings();
@@ -596,7 +578,7 @@ try_again:
 			if (ret < 0)
 				goto error;
 			goto reget_creds;
-		} else if (cred->tgcred->session_keyring ==
+		} else if (cred->session_keyring ==
 			   cred->user->session_keyring &&
 			   lflags & KEY_LOOKUP_CREATE) {
 			ret = join_session_keyring(NULL);
@@ -606,7 +588,7 @@ try_again:
 		}
 
 		rcu_read_lock();
-		key = rcu_dereference(cred->tgcred->session_keyring);
+		key = rcu_dereference(cred->session_keyring);
 		atomic_inc(&key->usage);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		key_ref = make_key_ref(key, 1);
@@ -766,12 +748,6 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name)
 	struct key *keyring;
 	long ret, serial;
 
-	/* only permit this if there's a single thread in the thread group -
-	 * this avoids us having to adjust the creds on all threads and risking
-	 * ENOMEM */
-	if (!current_is_single_threaded())
-		return -EMLINK;
-
 	new = prepare_creds();
 	if (!new)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -783,7 +759,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name)
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto error;
 
-		serial = new->tgcred->session_keyring->serial;
+		serial = new->session_keyring->serial;
 		ret = commit_creds(new);
 		if (ret == 0)
 			ret = serial;
@@ -806,6 +782,9 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name)
 	} else if (IS_ERR(keyring)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(keyring);
 		goto error2;
+	} else if (keyring == new->session_keyring) {
+		ret = 0;
+		goto error2;
 	}
 
 	/* we've got a keyring - now to install it */
@@ -862,8 +841,7 @@ void key_change_session_keyring(struct callback_head *twork)
 
 	new->jit_keyring	= old->jit_keyring;
 	new->thread_keyring	= key_get(old->thread_keyring);
-	new->tgcred->tgid	= old->tgcred->tgid;
-	new->tgcred->process_keyring = key_get(old->tgcred->process_keyring);
+	new->process_keyring	= key_get(old->process_keyring);
 
 	security_transfer_creds(new, old);