linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] crypto: ccm - avoid negative wrapping of integers

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Message-Id: <20210726170120.410705-1-jordy@pwning.systems>
Date:   Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:01:20 +0200
From:   Jordy Zomer <jordy@...ing.systems>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jordy Zomer <jordy@...ing.systems>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] crypto: ccm - avoid negative wrapping of integers 

Set csize to unsigned int to avoid it from wrapping as a negative number (since format input sends an unsigned integer to this function). This would also result in undefined behavior in the left shift when msg len is checked, potentially resulting in a buffer overflow in the memcpy call.

Signed-off-by: Jordy Zomer <jordy@...ing.systems>
---
To address was corrected, and ccm was added to the topic to indicate that this is just for ccm.

 crypto/ccm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/ccm.c b/crypto/ccm.c
index 6b815ece51c6..e14201edf9db 100644
--- a/crypto/ccm.c
+++ b/crypto/ccm.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static inline struct crypto_ccm_req_priv_ctx *crypto_ccm_reqctx(
 	return (void *)PTR_ALIGN((u8 *)aead_request_ctx(req), align + 1);
 }
 
-static int set_msg_len(u8 *block, unsigned int msglen, int csize)
+static int set_msg_len(u8 *block, unsigned int msglen, unsigned int csize)
 {
 	__be32 data;
 
-- 
2.27.0