Commit acdb04d0 authored Sep 13, 2016 by Herbert Xu

crypto: skcipher - Fix blkcipher walk OOM crash



When we need to allocate a temporary blkcipher_walk_next and it
fails, the code is supposed to take the slow path of processing
the data block by block.  However, due to an unrelated change
we instead end up dereferencing the NULL pointer.

This patch fixes it by moving the unrelated bsize setting out
of the way so that we enter the slow path as inteded.

Fixes: 7607bd8f ("[CRYPTO] blkcipher: Added blkcipher_walk_virt_block")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

parent 53a5d5dd

crypto/blkcipher.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ static int blkcipher_walk_next(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
		return blkcipher_walk_done(desc, walk, -EINVAL);
		}

		bsize = min(walk->walk_blocksize, n);

		walk->flags &= ~(BLKCIPHER_WALK_SLOW \| BLKCIPHER_WALK_COPY \|
		BLKCIPHER_WALK_DIFF);
		if (!scatterwalk_aligned(&walk->in, walk->alignmask) \|\|
		@@ -245,7 +247,6 @@ static int blkcipher_walk_next(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
		}
		}

		bsize = min(walk->walk_blocksize, n);
		n = scatterwalk_clamp(&walk->in, n);
		n = scatterwalk_clamp(&walk->out, n);

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