4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/api.c | 2 +-
include/linux/crypto.h | 5 +++++
security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/crypto/api.c
+++ b/crypto/api.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_lookup(
mask &= ~(CRYPTO_ALG_LARVAL | CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD);
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 &
--- a/include/linux/crypto.h
+++ b/include/linux/crypto.h
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@
#define CRYPTO_ALG_OPTIONAL_KEY 0x00004000
/*
+ * Don't trigger module loading
+ */
+#define CRYPTO_NOLOAD 0x00008000
+
+/*
* Transform masks and values (for crt_flags).
*/
#define CRYPTO_TFM_NEED_KEY 0x00000001
--- 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
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);
