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  - security/keys: fix slab-out-of-bounds in key_task_permission KASAN reports an out of bounds read: BUG:
    KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __kuid_val include/linux/uidgid.h:36 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in uid_eq     include/linux/uidgid.h:63 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in key_task_permission+0x394/0x410     security/keys/permission.c:54 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88813c3ab618 by task stress-ng/4362 CPU: 2 PID:
    4362 Comm: stress-ng Not tainted 5.10.0-14930-gafbffd6c3ede #15 Call Trace: __dump_stack     lib/dump_stack.c:82 [inline] dump_stack+0x107/0x167 lib/dump_stack.c:123     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:400 __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84     mm/kasan/report.c:560 kasan_report+0x3a/0x50 mm/kasan/report.c:585 __kuid_val include/linux/uidgid.h:36     [inline] uid_eq include/linux/uidgid.h:63 [inline] key_task_permission+0x394/0x410     security/keys/permission.c:54 search_nested_keyrings+0x90e/0xe90 security/keys/keyring.c:793 This issue     was also reported by syzbot. It can be reproduced by following these steps(more details [1]): 1. Obtain     more than 32 inputs that have similar hashes, which ends with the pattern '0xxxxxxxe6'. 2. Reboot and add     the keys obtained in step 1. The reproducer demonstrates how this issue happened: 1. In the     search_nested_keyrings function, when it iterates through the slots in a node(below tag ascend_to_node),     if the slot pointer is meta and node->back_pointer != NULL(it means a root), it will proceed to     descend_to_node. However, there is an exception. If node is the root, and one of the slots points to a     shortcut, it will be treated as a keyring. 2. Whether the ptr is keyring decided by keyring_ptr_is_keyring     function. However, KEYRING_PTR_SUBTYPE is 0x2UL, the same as ASSOC_ARRAY_PTR_SUBTYPE_MASK. 3. When 32 keys     with the similar hashes are added to the tree, the ROOT has keys with hashes that are not similar (e.g.
    slot 0) and it splits NODE A without using a shortcut. When NODE A is filled with keys that all hashes are     xxe6, the keys are similar, NODE A will split with a shortcut. Finally, it forms the tree as shown below,     where slot 6 points to a shortcut. NODE A +------>+---+ ROOT | | 0 | xxe6 +---+ | +---+ xxxx | 0 |     shortcut : : xxe6 +---+ | +---+ xxe6 : : | | | xxe6 +---+ | +---+ | 6 |---+ : : xxe6 +---+ +---+ xxe6 : :
    | f | xxe6 +---+ +---+ xxe6 | f | +---+ 4. As mentioned above, If a slot(slot 6) of the root points to a     shortcut, it may be mistakenly transferred to a key*, leading to a read out-of-bounds read. To fix this     issue, one should jump to descend_to_node if the ptr is a shortcut, regardless of whether the node is root     or not. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/1cfa878e-8c7b-4570-8606-21daf5e13ce7@huaweicloud.com/     [jarkko: tweaked the commit message a bit to have an appropriate closes tag.] (CVE-2024-50301)

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