On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > On 11/12/2016 09:20 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Hi > > > > dm-crypt uses the function kstrtou8 to decode the encryption key. kstrtou8 > > calls kstrtoull and kstrtoull skips the first character if it is '+'. > > > > Consequently, it is possible to load keys with '+' in it. For example, > > this is possible: > > > > dmsetup create cr --table "0 131072 crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 +0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 0 /dev/debian/tmptest 0" > > > > Should this be fixed in dm-crypt or in kstrtou8? A fix in kstrtou8 could > > be more appropriate, but we don't know how many other kernel parts depend > > on this "skip plus" behavior... > > I would way it should be checked in both places... > For dmcrypt, it should validate input here and should > not accept anything in key field in dm table that is not in hexa representation. > > (Is this regression since code switched from simple_strtoul to kstrtou8 > or this bug was there always?) Well, before kernel would silently parse anything broken as "0". But since it is base-16, "0[xX]" will be accepted before every byte. dm-crypt should parse key by hand, frankly. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
