From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e2861fa71641c6414831d628a1f4f793b6562580 ] When EVM attempts to appraise a file signed with a crypto algorithm the kernel doesn't have support for, it will cause the kernel to trigger a module load. If the EVM policy includes appraisal of kernel modules this will in turn call back into EVM - since EVM is holding a lock until the crypto initialisation is complete, this triggers a deadlock. Add a CRYPTO_NOLOAD flag and skip module loading if it's set, and add that flag in the EVM case in order to fail gracefully with an error message instead of deadlocking. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/api.c | 2 +- include/linux/crypto.h | 5 +++++ security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c index bbc147cb5dec..abf53e67e3d8 100644 --- a/crypto/api.c +++ b/crypto/api.c @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_lookup(const char *name, u32 type, u32 mask) type &= mask; alg = crypto_alg_lookup(name, type, mask); - if (!alg) { + if (!alg && !(mask & CRYPTO_NOLOAD)) { request_module("crypto-%s", name); if (!((type ^ CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK) & mask & diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h index 8edb3ba6f640..9de26962338e 100644 --- a/include/linux/crypto.h +++ b/include/linux/crypto.h @@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ */ #define CRYPTO_ALG_OPTIONAL_KEY 0x00004000 +/* + * Don't trigger module loading + */ +#define CRYPTO_NOLOAD 0x00008000 + /* * Transform masks and values (for crt_flags). */ diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c index bf663915412e..6fcbd8e99baf 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c @@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ static struct shash_desc *init_desc(char type) mutex_lock(&mutex); if (*tfm) goto out; - *tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(algo, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC); + *tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(algo, 0, + CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_NOLOAD); if (IS_ERR(*tfm)) { rc = PTR_ERR(*tfm); pr_err("Can not allocate %s (reason: %ld)\n", algo, rc); -- 2.17.1