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, 15 insertions, 112 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index de728ac..3f7ad1e 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -30,17 +30,6 @@
 static struct kmem_cache *cred_jar;
 
 /*
- * The common credentials for the initial task's thread group
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-static struct thread_group_cred init_tgcred = {
-	.usage	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
-	.tgid	= 0,
-	.lock	= __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_cred.tgcred.lock),
-};
-#endif
-
-/*
  * The initial credentials for the initial task
  */
 struct cred init_cred = {
@@ -65,9 +54,6 @@ struct cred init_cred = {
 	.user			= INIT_USER,
 	.user_ns		= &init_user_ns,
 	.group_info		= &init_groups,
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	.tgcred			= &init_tgcred,
-#endif
 };
 
 static inline void set_cred_subscribers(struct cred *cred, int n)
@@ -96,36 +82,6 @@ static inline void alter_cred_subscribers(const struct cred *_cred, int n)
 }
 
 /*
- * Dispose of the shared task group credentials
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-static void release_tgcred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-	struct thread_group_cred *tgcred =
-		container_of(rcu, struct thread_group_cred, rcu);
-
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&tgcred->usage) != 0);
-
-	key_put(tgcred->session_keyring);
-	key_put(tgcred->process_keyring);
-	kfree(tgcred);
-}
-#endif
-
-/*
- * Release a set of thread group credentials.
- */
-static void release_tgcred(struct cred *cred)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = cred->tgcred;
-
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&tgcred->usage))
-		call_rcu(&tgcred->rcu, release_tgcred_rcu);
-#endif
-}
-
-/*
  * The RCU callback to actually dispose of a set of credentials
  */
 static void put_cred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
@@ -150,9 +106,10 @@ static void put_cred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 #endif
 
 	security_cred_free(cred);
+	key_put(cred->session_keyring);
+	key_put(cred->process_keyring);
 	key_put(cred->thread_keyring);
 	key_put(cred->request_key_auth);
-	release_tgcred(cred);
 	if (cred->group_info)
 		put_group_info(cred->group_info);
 	free_uid(cred->user);
@@ -246,15 +203,6 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void)
 	if (!new)
 		return NULL;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	new->tgcred = kzalloc(sizeof(*new->tgcred), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!new->tgcred) {
-		kmem_cache_free(cred_jar, new);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-	atomic_set(&new->tgcred->usage, 1);
-#endif
-
 	atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
 	new->magic = CRED_MAGIC;
@@ -308,9 +256,10 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)
 	get_user_ns(new->user_ns);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
+	key_get(new->session_keyring);
+	key_get(new->process_keyring);
 	key_get(new->thread_keyring);
 	key_get(new->request_key_auth);
-	atomic_inc(&new->tgcred->usage);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
@@ -334,39 +283,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_creds);
  */
 struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void)
 {
-	struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = NULL;
 	struct cred *new;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	tgcred = kmalloc(sizeof(*tgcred), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tgcred)
-		return NULL;
-#endif
-
 	new = prepare_creds();
-	if (!new) {
-		kfree(tgcred);
+	if (!new)
 		return new;
-	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
 	/* newly exec'd tasks don't get a thread keyring */
 	key_put(new->thread_keyring);
 	new->thread_keyring = NULL;
 
-	/* create a new per-thread-group creds for all this set of threads to
-	 * share */
-	memcpy(tgcred, new->tgcred, sizeof(struct thread_group_cred));
-
-	atomic_set(&tgcred->usage, 1);
-	spin_lock_init(&tgcred->lock);
-
 	/* inherit the session keyring; new process keyring */
-	key_get(tgcred->session_keyring);
-	tgcred->process_keyring = NULL;
-
-	release_tgcred(new);
-	new->tgcred = tgcred;
+	key_put(new->process_keyring);
+	new->process_keyring = NULL;
 #endif
 
 	return new;
@@ -383,9 +313,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void)
  */
 int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	struct thread_group_cred *tgcred;
-#endif
 	struct cred *new;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -425,22 +352,12 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
 			install_thread_keyring_to_cred(new);
 	}
 
-	/* we share the process and session keyrings between all the threads in
-	 * a process - this is slightly icky as we violate COW credentials a
-	 * bit */
+	/* The process keyring is only shared between the threads in a process;
+	 * anything outside of those threads doesn't inherit.
+	 */
 	if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)) {
-		tgcred = kmalloc(sizeof(*tgcred), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!tgcred) {
-			ret = -ENOMEM;
-			goto error_put;
-		}
-		atomic_set(&tgcred->usage, 1);
-		spin_lock_init(&tgcred->lock);
-		tgcred->process_keyring = NULL;
-		tgcred->session_keyring = key_get(new->tgcred->session_keyring);
-
-		release_tgcred(new);
-		new->tgcred = tgcred;
+		key_put(new->process_keyring);
+		new->process_keyring = NULL;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -643,9 +560,6 @@ void __init cred_init(void)
  */
 struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	struct thread_group_cred *tgcred;
-#endif
 	const struct cred *old;
 	struct cred *new;
 
@@ -653,14 +567,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 	if (!new)
 		return NULL;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	tgcred = kmalloc(sizeof(*tgcred), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tgcred) {
-		kmem_cache_free(cred_jar, new);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-#endif
-
 	kdebug("prepare_kernel_cred() alloc %p", new);
 
 	if (daemon)
@@ -678,13 +584,10 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 	get_group_info(new->group_info);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-	atomic_set(&tgcred->usage, 1);
-	spin_lock_init(&tgcred->lock);
-	tgcred->process_keyring = NULL;
-	tgcred->session_keyring = NULL;
-	new->tgcred = tgcred;
-	new->request_key_auth = NULL;
+	new->session_keyring = NULL;
+	new->process_keyring = NULL;
 	new->thread_keyring = NULL;
+	new->request_key_auth = NULL;
 	new->jit_keyring = KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING;
 #endif