Re: Kernel panic - encryption/decryption failed when open file on Arm64

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On 13 September 2016 at 07:43, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> So to me, it seems like we should be taking the blkcipher_next_slow()
>> path, which does a kmalloc() and bails with -ENOMEM if that fails.
>
> Indeed.  This was broken a long time ago.  It does seem to be
> fixed in the new skcipher_walk code but here is a patch to fix
> it for older kernels.
>
> ---8<---
> Subject: crypto: skcipher - Fix blkcipher walk OOM crash
>
> When we need to allocate a temporary blkcipher_walk_next and it
> fails, the code is supposed to take the slow path of processing
> the data block by block.  However, due to an unrelated change
> we instead end up dereferencing the NULL pointer.
>
> This patch fixes it by moving the unrelated bsize setting out
> of the way so that we enter the slow path as inteded.
>
inteNded ^^^

> Fixes: 7607bd8ff03b ("[CRYPTO] blkcipher: Added blkcipher_walk_virt_block")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

This fixes the issue for me

Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

I will follow up with fixes for the ARM and arm64 CTR code shortly.

Thanks,
Ard.

> diff --git a/crypto/blkcipher.c b/crypto/blkcipher.c
> index 3699995..a832426 100644
> --- a/crypto/blkcipher.c
> +++ b/crypto/blkcipher.c
> @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ static int blkcipher_walk_next(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
>                 return blkcipher_walk_done(desc, walk, -EINVAL);
>         }
>
> +       bsize = min(walk->walk_blocksize, n);
> +
>         walk->flags &= ~(BLKCIPHER_WALK_SLOW | BLKCIPHER_WALK_COPY |
>                          BLKCIPHER_WALK_DIFF);
>         if (!scatterwalk_aligned(&walk->in, walk->alignmask) ||
> @@ -245,7 +247,6 @@ static int blkcipher_walk_next(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
>                 }
>         }
>
> -       bsize = min(walk->walk_blocksize, n);
>         n = scatterwalk_clamp(&walk->in, n);
>         n = scatterwalk_clamp(&walk->out, n);
>
> --
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