Re: kernel failure while loading X.509 certificate

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> Il giorno 17 gen 2018, alle ore 06:44, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:36:16AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Il giorno 17 gen 2018, alle ore 06:16, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> Hi Paolo,
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 07:06:12AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno 11 gen 2018, alle ore 23:37, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>> this is a help request, for a problem that has been driving me crazy
>>>>>> all day long, without any success :(
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've compiled a 4.15-rc7 custom kernel on a freshly-installed Fedora
>>>>>> 27, using the usual "make ; make modules_install ; make install"
>>>>>> procedure. No error reported while building.  But at boot the
>>>>>> kernel immediately fails as follows, apparently while loading/parsing
>>>>>> an X.509 certificate:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The BUG_ON() you hit is this one in public_key_verify_signature():
>>>>> 
>>>>>      BUG_ON(!sig->digest);
>>>>> 
>>>>> There was a patch series by Eric Biggers that touched these files to
>>>>> add some fixes
>>>>> after v4.15-rc1.  I'm not runnig that code myself, but it sounds like
>>>>> a real regression,
>>>>> so I'm adding Eric (to look at the code), the corresponding mailing
>>>>> list and Thorsten
>>>>> (for regression tracking) to Cc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> x509_cert_parse() allocates the 'cert->sig' structure, and calls
>>>>> x509_get_sig_params(),
>>>>> which may or may not allocate a digest. It returns with
>>>>> cert->unsupported_sig=true
>>>>> in case it fails to allocate a digest for some reason (crypto_alloc_shash failed
>>>>> or no sig->hash_algo).
>>>>> 
>>>>> The full set of Eric's patches is
>>>>> 
>>>>> 54c1fb39fe04 X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo
>>>>> 18026d866801 KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified
>>>>> 3d1f0255426a security: keys: remove redundant assignment to key_ref
>>>>> aa3300362060 X.509: use crypto_shash_digest()
>>>>> 72f9a07b6bfa KEYS: be careful with error codes in public_key_verify_signature()
>>>>> a80745a6de51 pkcs7: use crypto_shash_digest()
>>>>> 7204eb8590c7 pkcs7: fix check for self-signed certificate
>>>>> 8ecb506d3476 pkcs7: return correct error code if pkcs7_check_authattrs() fails
>>>>> 8dfd2f22d3bf 509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty
>>>>> 47e0a208fb9d X.509: fix buffer overflow detection in sprint_oid()
>>>>> 0f30cbea005b X.509: reject invalid BIT STRING for subjectPublicKey
>>>>> 81a7be2cd69b ASN.1: check for error from ASN1_OP_END__ACT actions
>>>>> e0058f3a874e ASN.1: fix out-of-bounds read when parsing indefinite length item
>>>>> 4dca6ea1d943 KEYS: add missing permission check for request_key() destination
>>>>> a2d8737d5c78 KEYS: remove unnecessary get/put of explicit dest_keyring
>>>>> 
>>>>> and it's based on -rc2. If you want to do a quicker bisection, I'd
>>>>> suggest you try
>>>>> 4.15-rc2 and 54c1fb39fe04 to start with.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much Arnd.  Fortunately, for the task I'm performing, a
>>>> 4.14 will do too.  And I'm under pressure to finally finish this task.
>>>> Yet, even before I finish with this task, I'm willing to do any test
>>>> that the guys you added may want me to do.  And, if more useful for
>>>> the community, ok for me to switch to the most appropriate public
>>>> mailing lists.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Have you managed to bisect this yet?  I'm not seeing how my changes could have
>>> caused this, but it does seem there may be an existing bug where this BUG() can
>>> be hit if a certificate's signature uses a hash algorithm that is not built into
>>> the kernel.  To verify whether that is happening can you try adding:
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
>>> index 9338b4558cdc..f1804640445a 100644
>>> --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
>>> +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
>>> @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ int x509_get_sig_params(struct x509_certificate *cert)
>>> 	tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(sig->hash_algo, 0, 0);
>>> 	if (IS_ERR(tfm)) {
>>> 		if (PTR_ERR(tfm) == -ENOENT) {
>>> +			pr_err("Hash algorithm %s not supported by crypto API\n",
>>> +			       sig->hash_algo);
>>> 			cert->unsupported_sig = true;
>>> 			return 0;
>>> 		}
>>> 
>>> If the pr_err() is hit then check the status of the corresponding CONFIG_CRYPTO_
>>> option in your .config, for example CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 if the algorithm is
>>> "sha256".
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Eric,
>> in the meantime I have moved to rc8, and the problem has disappeared.
>> Does this ring any bell?  Otherwise, I'll retry with rc7 after adding
>> your error message.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Paolo
>> 
> 
> No, it doesn't ring a bell.  Is it possible you changed your kernel config
> between rc7 and rc8?

I have used the same procedure to generate for both configs: with a
4.14 running,
./scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl > ~/linux-build/.config

Unfortunately, I have overwritten the config I used for rc7.  I'll
repeat my workflow for rc7 and get back to you.

Thanks,
Paolo





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