Hi, Fedora got a bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395896 of an oops with this program: #include <linux/if_alg.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <sys/socket.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { static const union { struct sockaddr sa; struct sockaddr_alg alg; } sa = { .alg.salg_family = AF_ALG, .alg.salg_type = "hash", .alg.salg_name = "sha256", }; char c; int fd1, fd2; fd1 = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0); bind(fd1, &sa.sa, sizeof(sa)); fd2 = accept(fd1, NULL, 0); recv(fd2, &c, sizeof(c), 0); return 0; } [ 10.802304] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 [ 10.803970] IP: [<ffffffff812f743e>] shash_ahash_digest+0x1e/0x100 [ 10.805046] PGD eb37067 PUD 12425067 PMD 0 [ 10.806019] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 10.806702] Modules linked in: [ 10.807421] CPU: 0 PID: 1098 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #29 [ 10.808444] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.1-1.fc24 04/01/2014 [ 10.809839] task: ffff880010a92400 task.stack: ffff880012458000 [ 10.810653] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812f743e>] [<ffffffff812f743e>] shash_ahash_digest+0x1e/0x100 [ 10.811979] RSP: 0018:ffff88001245bd48 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 10.812730] RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: ffff88001249b390 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 10.814419] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88001249b390 RDI: ffff88001249b340 [ 10.815303] RBP: ffff88001245bd68 R08: ffff88000eb54fa0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 10.816126] R10: ffff88000eb547d0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff812f7520 [ 10.816946] R13: ffff88001249b340 R14: ffff88001245be38 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 10.818098] FS: 00007f1849f3a700(0000) GS:ffff880011800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 10.819644] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 10.820370] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000000eb36000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 10.821198] Stack: [ 10.821641] ffff88001249b340 ffffffff812f7520 ffff880012498c18 ffff88001245be38 [ 10.822905] ffff88001245bd78 ffffffff812f753f ffff88001245bda0 ffffffff812f6aa4 [ 10.824168] ffff88001249b060 ffff88001249b060 0000000000000001 ffff88001245bdb0 [ 10.825434] Call Trace: [ 10.825910] [<ffffffff812f7520>] ? shash_ahash_digest+0x100/0x100 [ 10.826663] [<ffffffff812f753f>] shash_async_digest+0x1f/0x30 [ 10.827389] [<ffffffff812f6aa4>] crypto_ahash_op+0x24/0x60 [ 10.828097] [<ffffffff812f6b31>] crypto_ahash_digest+0x11/0x20 [ 10.828835] [<ffffffff813087a4>] hash_recvmsg+0x1a4/0x1c0 [ 10.829539] [<ffffffff817253b8>] sock_recvmsg+0x38/0x40 [ 10.830232] [<ffffffff817255ab>] SYSC_recvfrom+0xcb/0x130 [ 10.830937] [<ffffffff81724ccf>] ? sock_map_fd+0x3f/0x60 [ 10.831635] [<ffffffff81726729>] SyS_recvfrom+0x9/0x10 [ 10.832317] [<ffffffff81922572>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4 [ 10.833091] Code: 44 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 b8 00 10 00 00 48 89 e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 49 89 fd 48 8b 4f 38 41 8b 55 30 48 89 f3 <8b> 79 08 29 f8 39 41 0c 0f 46 41 0c 39 c2 73 74 48 8b 31 48 83 [ 10.838754] RIP [<ffffffff812f743e>] shash_ahash_digest+0x1e/0x100 [ 10.839560] RSP <ffff88001245bd48> [ 10.840112] CR2: 0000000000000008 [ 10.840674] ---[ end trace 4314dcc948f7acad ]--- [ 10.841320] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [ 10.842106] Kernel Offset: disabled It looks like hash_recvmsg sets the sg to NULL with ahash_request_set_crypt(&ctx->req, NULL, ctx->result, 0); which then blows up when crypto_ahash_digest -> hash_ahash_digest tries to access it. Thanks, Laura -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html