Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecc: fix NULL pointer dereferencing in ecc_gen_privkey()

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:54:44 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 10:13:18AM +0300, Roman Smirnov wrote:
> > ecc_get_curve() can return NULL. It is necessary to check
> > for NULL before dereferencing.
> > 
> > Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Smirnov <r.smirnov@xxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  crypto/ecc.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Please point me to the exact code path where this can happen.

I didn't find a specific path. Several places in the file have this
check:

ecc_make_pub_key()
crypto_ecdh_shared_secret()

I thought it was needed in this place too.





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