linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 163/164] crypto: algif - avoid excessive use of socket buffer in skcipher

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:14:26 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Ondrej Kozina" <okozina@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 163/164] crypto: algif - avoid excessive use of socket
 buffer in skcipher

3.2.65-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@...hat.com>

commit e2cffb5f493a8b431dc87124388ea59b79f0bccb upstream.

On archs with PAGE_SIZE >= 64 KiB the function skcipher_alloc_sgl()
fails with -ENOMEM no matter what user space actually requested.
This is caused by the fact sock_kmalloc call inside the function tried
to allocate more memory than allowed by the default kernel socket buffer
size (kernel param net.core.optmem_max).

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
index a19c027..83187f4 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct skcipher_ctx {
 	struct ablkcipher_request req;
 };
 
-#define MAX_SGL_ENTS ((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct skcipher_sg_list)) / \
+#define MAX_SGL_ENTS ((4096 - sizeof(struct skcipher_sg_list)) / \
 		      sizeof(struct scatterlist) - 1)
 
 static inline int skcipher_sndbuf(struct sock *sk)

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/