This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
to the 4.4-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-algapi-fix-null-dereference-in-crypto_remove_spawns.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9a00674213a3f00394f4e3221b88f2d21fc05789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:30:19 -0600
Subject: crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9a00674213a3f00394f4e3221b88f2d21fc05789 upstream.
syzkaller triggered a NULL pointer dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
via a program that repeatedly and concurrently requests AEADs
"authenc(cmac(des3_ede-asm),pcbc-aes-aesni)" and hashes "cmac(des3_ede)"
through AF_ALG, where the hashes are requested as "untested"
(CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED is set in ->salg_mask but clear in ->salg_feat; this
causes the template to be instantiated for every request).
Although AF_ALG users really shouldn't be able to request an "untested"
algorithm, the NULL pointer dereference is actually caused by a
longstanding race condition where crypto_remove_spawns() can encounter
an instance which has had spawn(s) "grabbed" but hasn't yet been
registered, resulting in ->cra_users still being NULL.
We probably should properly initialize ->cra_users earlier, but that
would require updating many templates individually. For now just fix
the bug in a simple way that can easily be backported: make
crypto_remove_spawns() treat a NULL ->cra_users list as empty.
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algapi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
--- a/crypto/algapi.c
+++ b/crypto/algapi.c
@@ -168,6 +168,18 @@ void crypto_remove_spawns(struct crypto_
spawn->alg = NULL;
spawns = &inst->alg.cra_users;
+
+ /*
+ * We may encounter an unregistered instance here, since
+ * an instance's spawns are set up prior to the instance
+ * being registered. An unregistered instance will have
+ * NULL ->cra_users.next, since ->cra_users isn't
+ * properly initialized until registration. But an
+ * unregistered instance cannot have any users, so treat
+ * it the same as ->cra_users being empty.
+ */
+ if (spawns->next == NULL)
+ break;
}
} while ((spawns = crypto_more_spawns(alg, &stack, &top,
&secondary_spawns)));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/crypto-algapi-fix-null-dereference-in-crypto_remove_spawns.patch