Patch "X.509: Fix double free in x509_cert_parse() [ver #3]" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

    X.509: Fix double free in x509_cert_parse() [ver #3]

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     x.509-fix-double-free-in-x509_cert_parse.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:23:03 +0000
Subject: X.509: Fix double free in x509_cert_parse() [ver #3]

From: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>

commit 2b95fda2c4fcb6d6625963f889247538f247fce0 upstream.

We shouldn't free cert->pub->key in x509_cert_parse() because x509_free_certificate() also does this:

	BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81896c20>] dump_stack+0x63/0x83
	 [<ffffffff81356571>] kasan_object_err+0x21/0x70
	 [<ffffffff81356ed9>] kasan_report_double_free+0x49/0x60
	 [<ffffffff813561ad>] kasan_slab_free+0x9d/0xc0
	 [<ffffffff81350b7a>] kfree+0x8a/0x1a0
	 [<ffffffff81844fbf>] public_key_free+0x1f/0x30
	 [<ffffffff818455d4>] x509_free_certificate+0x24/0x90
	 [<ffffffff818460bc>] x509_cert_parse+0x2bc/0x300
	 [<ffffffff81846cae>] x509_key_preparse+0x3e/0x330
	 [<ffffffff818444cf>] asymmetric_key_preparse+0x6f/0x100
	 [<ffffffff8178bec0>] key_create_or_update+0x260/0x5f0
	 [<ffffffff8178e6d9>] SyS_add_key+0x199/0x2a0
	 [<ffffffff821d823b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
	Object at ffff880110bd1900, in cache kmalloc-512 size: 512
	....
	Freed:
	PID = 2579
	[<ffffffff8104283b>] save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
	[<ffffffff813558f6>] save_stack+0x46/0xd0
	[<ffffffff81356183>] kasan_slab_free+0x73/0xc0
	[<ffffffff81350b7a>] kfree+0x8a/0x1a0
	[<ffffffff818460a3>] x509_cert_parse+0x2a3/0x300
	[<ffffffff81846cae>] x509_key_preparse+0x3e/0x330
	[<ffffffff818444cf>] asymmetric_key_preparse+0x6f/0x100
	[<ffffffff8178bec0>] key_create_or_update+0x260/0x5f0
	[<ffffffff8178e6d9>] SyS_add_key+0x199/0x2a0
	[<ffffffff821d823b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad

---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ struct x509_certificate *x509_cert_parse
 	return cert;
 
 error_decode:
-	kfree(cert->pub->key);
 	kfree(ctx);
 error_no_ctx:
 	x509_free_certificate(cert);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/x.509-fix-double-free-in-x509_cert_parse.patch queue-4.8/mpi-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-mpi_powm.patch