4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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)));