The SGL is MAX_SGL_ENTS + 1 in size. The last SG entry is used for the
chaining and is properly updated with the sg_chain invocation. During
the filling-in of the initial SG entries, sg_mark_end is called for each
SG entry. This is appropriate as long as no additional SGL is chained
with the current SGL. However, when a new SGL is chained and the last
SG entry is updated with sg_chain, the last but one entry still contains
the end marker from the sg_mark_end. This end marker must be removed as
otherwise a walk of the chained SGLs will cause a NULL pointer
dereference at the last but one SG entry, because sg_next will return
NULL.
The patch only applies to all kernels up to and including 4.13. The
patch 2d97591ef43d0587be22ad1b0d758d6df4999a0b added to 4.14-rc1
introduced a complete new code base which addresses this bug in
a different way. Yet, that patch is too invasive for stable kernels
and was therefore not marked for stable.
Fixes: 8ff590903d5fc ("crypto: algif_skcipher - User-space interface
for skcipher operations")
CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
index 43839b00fe6c..62449a8f14ce 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ static int skcipher_alloc_sgl(struct sock *sk)
sg_init_table(sgl->sg, MAX_SGL_ENTS + 1);
sgl->cur = 0;
- if (sg)
+ if (sg) {
sg_chain(sg, MAX_SGL_ENTS + 1, sgl->sg);
+ sg_unmark_end(sg + (MAX_SGL_ENTS - 1));
+ }
list_add_tail(&sgl->list, &ctx->tsgl);
}
--
2.13.5
