linux-kernel - [PATCH] crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove

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Date:   Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:30:19 -0600
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

syzkaller triggered a NULL pointer dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
via a program that repeatedly and concurrently requests AEADs
"authenc(cmac(des3_ede-asm),pcbc-aes-aesni)" and hashes "cmac(des3_ede)"
through AF_ALG, where the hashes are requested as "untested"
(CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED is set in ->salg_mask but clear in ->salg_feat; this
causes the template to be instantiated for every request).

Although AF_ALG users really shouldn't be able to request an "untested"
algorithm, the NULL pointer dereference is actually caused by a
longstanding race condition where crypto_remove_spawns() can encounter
an instance which has had spawn(s) "grabbed" but hasn't yet been
registered, resulting in ->cra_users still being NULL.

We probably should properly initialize ->cra_users earlier, but that
would require updating many templates individually.  For now just fix
the bug in a simple way that can easily be backported: make
crypto_remove_spawns() treat a NULL ->cra_users list as empty.

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 crypto/algapi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/algapi.c b/crypto/algapi.c
index 9895cafcce7e..395b082d03a9 100644
--- a/crypto/algapi.c
+++ b/crypto/algapi.c
@@ -166,6 +166,18 @@ void crypto_remove_spawns(struct crypto_alg *alg, struct list_head *list,

 			spawn->alg = NULL;
 			spawns = &inst->alg.cra_users;
+
+			/*
+			 * We may encounter an unregistered instance here, since
+			 * an instance's spawns are set up prior to the instance
+			 * being registered.  An unregistered instance will have
+			 * NULL ->cra_users.next, since ->cra_users isn't
+			 * properly initialized until registration.  But an
+			 * unregistered instance cannot have any users, so treat
+			 * it the same as ->cra_users being empty.
+			 */
+			if (spawns->next == NULL)
+				break;
 		}
 	} while ((spawns = crypto_more_spawns(alg, &stack, &top,
 					      &secondary_spawns)));
-- 
2.15.1