Andy Lutromirski's new virtually mapped kernel stack allocations moves
kernel stacks the vmalloc area. This triggers the bug
kernel BUG at ./include/linux/scatterlist.h:140!
at calc_seckey()->sg_init()
Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
index 8347c90..5eb0412 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -808,7 +808,11 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
struct crypto_skcipher *tfm_arc4;
struct scatterlist sgin, sgout;
struct skcipher_request *req;
- unsigned char sec_key[CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE]; /* a nonce */
+ unsigned char *sec_key;
+
+ sec_key = kmalloc(CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (sec_key == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
get_random_bytes(sec_key, CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE);
@@ -816,7 +820,7 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
if (IS_ERR(tfm_arc4)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(tfm_arc4);
cifs_dbg(VFS, "could not allocate crypto API arc4\n");
- return rc;
+ goto out;
}
rc = crypto_skcipher_setkey(tfm_arc4, ses->auth_key.response,
@@ -854,7 +858,8 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
out_free_cipher:
crypto_free_skcipher(tfm_arc4);
-
+out:
+ kfree(sec_key);
return rc;
}
--
2.7.4
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