linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 179/255] crypto: akcipher - default implementation for setting a private key

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Message-Id: <20221024113008.816417193@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:31:29 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 179/255] crypto: akcipher - default implementation for setting a private key

From: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>

[ Upstream commit bc155c6c188c2f0c5749993b1405673d25a80389 ]

Changes from v1:
  * removed the default implementation from set_pub_key: it is assumed that
    an implementation must always have this callback defined as there are
    no use case for an algorithm, which doesn't need a public key

Many akcipher implementations (like ECDSA) support only signature
verifications, so they don't have all callbacks defined.

Commit 78a0324f4a53 ("crypto: akcipher - default implementations for
request callbacks") introduced default callbacks for sign/verify
operations, which just return an error code.

However, these are not enough, because before calling sign the caller would
likely call set_priv_key first on the instantiated transform (as the
in-kernel testmgr does). This function does not have a default stub, so the
kernel crashes, when trying to set a private key on an akcipher, which
doesn't support signature generation.

I've noticed this, when trying to add a KAT vector for ECDSA signature to
the testmgr.

With this patch the testmgr returns an error in dmesg (as it should)
instead of crashing the kernel NULL ptr dereference.

Fixes: 78a0324f4a53 ("crypto: akcipher - default implementations for request callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 crypto/akcipher.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/akcipher.c b/crypto/akcipher.c
index 7d5cf4939423..ceb0c2fb2b24 100644
--- a/crypto/akcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/akcipher.c
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ static int akcipher_default_op(struct akcipher_request *req)
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 
+static int akcipher_default_set_key(struct crypto_akcipher *tfm,
+				     const void *key, unsigned int keylen)
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
 int crypto_register_akcipher(struct akcipher_alg *alg)
 {
 	struct crypto_alg *base = &alg->base;
@@ -131,6 +137,8 @@ int crypto_register_akcipher(struct akcipher_alg *alg)
 		alg->encrypt = akcipher_default_op;
 	if (!alg->decrypt)
 		alg->decrypt = akcipher_default_op;
+	if (!alg->set_priv_key)
+		alg->set_priv_key = akcipher_default_set_key;
 
 	akcipher_prepare_alg(alg);
 	return crypto_register_alg(base);
-- 
2.35.1