This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: algif_hash - avoid zero-sized array to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-algif_hash-avoid-zero-sized-array.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6207119444595d287b1e9e83a2066c17209698f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:31:01 +0100 Subject: crypto: algif_hash - avoid zero-sized array From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> commit 6207119444595d287b1e9e83a2066c17209698f3 upstream. With this reproducer: struct sockaddr_alg alg = { .salg_family = 0x26, .salg_type = "hash", .salg_feat = 0xf, .salg_mask = 0x5, .salg_name = "digest_null", }; int sock, sock2; sock = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0); bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&alg, sizeof(alg)); sock2 = accept(sock, NULL, NULL); setsockopt(sock, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, "\x9b\xca", 2); accept(sock2, NULL, NULL); ==== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ==== one can immediatelly see an UBSAN warning: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in crypto/algif_hash.c:187:7 variable length array bound value 0 <= 0 CPU: 0 PID: 15949 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G E 4.4.30-0-default #1 ... Call Trace: ... [<ffffffff81d598fd>] ? __ubsan_handle_vla_bound_not_positive+0x13d/0x188 [<ffffffff81d597c0>] ? __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x1bc/0x1bc [<ffffffffa0e2204d>] ? hash_accept+0x5bd/0x7d0 [algif_hash] [<ffffffffa0e2293f>] ? hash_accept_nokey+0x3f/0x51 [algif_hash] [<ffffffffa0e206b0>] ? hash_accept_parent_nokey+0x4a0/0x4a0 [algif_hash] [<ffffffff8235c42b>] ? SyS_accept+0x2b/0x40 It is a correct warning, as hash state is propagated to accept as zero, but creating a zero-length variable array is not allowed in C. Fix this as proposed by Herbert -- do "?: 1" on that site. No sizeof or similar happens in the code there, so we just allocate one byte even though we do not use the array. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CRYPTO API) Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/algif_hash.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/crypto/algif_hash.c +++ b/crypto/algif_hash.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static int hash_accept(struct socket *so struct alg_sock *ask = alg_sk(sk); struct hash_ctx *ctx = ask->private; struct ahash_request *req = &ctx->req; - char state[crypto_ahash_statesize(crypto_ahash_reqtfm(req))]; + char state[crypto_ahash_statesize(crypto_ahash_reqtfm(req)) ? : 1]; struct sock *sk2; struct alg_sock *ask2; struct hash_ctx *ctx2; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/crypto-algif_hash-avoid-zero-sized-array.patch