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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2019-01-06 18:47:43 -0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2019-01-18 18:40:24 +0800
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crypto: skcipher - set CRYPTO_TFM_NEED_KEY if ->setkey() fails
Some algorithms have a ->setkey() method that is not atomic, in the sense that setting a key can fail after changes were already made to the tfm context. In this case, if a key was already set the tfm can end up in a state that corresponds to neither the old key nor the new key. For example, in lrw.c, if gf128mul_init_64k_bbe() fails due to lack of memory, then priv::table will be left NULL. After that, encryption with that tfm will cause a NULL pointer dereference. It's not feasible to make all ->setkey() methods atomic, especially ones that have to key multiple sub-tfms. Therefore, make the crypto API set CRYPTO_TFM_NEED_KEY if ->setkey() fails and the algorithm requires a key, to prevent the tfm from being used until a new key is set. [Cc stable mainly because when introducing the NEED_KEY flag I changed AF_ALG to rely on it; and unlike in-kernel crypto API users, AF_ALG previously didn't have this problem. So these "incompletely keyed" states became theoretically accessible via AF_ALG -- though, the opportunities for causing real mischief seem pretty limited.] Fixes: f8d33fac8480 ("crypto: skcipher - prevent using skciphers without setting key") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+ Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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