linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: prevent helper ciphers from being allocated by users

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:23:50 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: prevent helper ciphers from being allocated
 by users

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:09:21PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>  
> +struct crypto_tfm *__crypto_alloc_tfm_safe(struct crypto_alg *alg, u32 type,
> +					   u32 mask)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Prevent all ciphers from being loaded which have a cra_priority
> +	 * of 0. Those cipher implementations are helper ciphers and
> +	 * are not intended for general consumption.
> +	 *
> +	 * The only exceptions are the compression algorithms which
> +	 * have no priority.
> +	 */
> +	if (!alg->cra_priority &&
> +	    ((alg->cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) !=
> +	      CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_PCOMPRESS) &&
> +	    ((alg->cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) !=
> +	      CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS))
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);

How about adding a flag to all these internal algorithms and then
change crypto_alg_mod_lookup to disable that flag by default?

Cheers,
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