Re: [PATCH] crypto: sha512-mb - initialize pending lengths correctly

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:31:27AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The SHA-512 multibuffer code keeps track of the number of blocks pending
> in each lane.  The minimum of these values is used to identify the next
> lane that will be completed.  Unused lanes are set to a large number
> (0xFFFFFFFF) so that they don't affect this calculation.
> 
> However, it was forgotten to set the lengths to this value in the
> initial state, where all lanes are unused.  As a result it was possible
> for sha512_mb_mgr_get_comp_job_avx2() to select an unused lane, causing
> a NULL pointer dereference.  Specifically this could happen in the case
> where ->update() was passed fewer than SHA512_BLOCK_SIZE bytes of data,
> so it then called sha_complete_job() without having actually submitted
> any blocks to the multi-buffer code.  This hit a NULL pointer
> dereference if another task happened to have submitted blocks
> concurrently to the same CPU and the flush timer had not yet expired.
> 
> Fix this by initializing sha512_mb_mgr->lens correctly.
> 
> As usual, this bug was found by syzkaller.
> 
> Fixes: 45691e2d9b18 ("crypto: sha512-mb - submit/flush routines for AVX2")
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.8+
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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