This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH - RESEND] crypto: AF_ALG - remove SGL terminator indicator when chaining
to the 3.18-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-af_alg-remove-sgl-terminator-indicator-when-chaining.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From smueller@xxxxxxxxxx Fri Sep 22 11:04:43 2017
From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:16:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH - RESEND] crypto: AF_ALG - remove SGL terminator indicator when chaining
To: herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, greg@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <5857040.2sfW0oRrdW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixed differently upstream as commit 2d97591ef43d ("crypto: af_alg - consolidation of duplicate code")
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")
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
@@ -92,8 +92,10 @@ static int skcipher_alloc_sgl(struct soc
sg_init_table(sgl->sg, MAX_SGL_ENTS + 1);
sgl->cur = 0;
- if (sg)
+ if (sg) {
scatterwalk_sg_chain(sg, MAX_SGL_ENTS + 1, sgl->sg);
+ sg_unmark_end(sg + (MAX_SGL_ENTS - 1));
+ }
list_add_tail(&sgl->list, &ctx->tsgl);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smueller@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/crypto-af_alg-remove-sgl-terminator-indicator-when-chaining.patch