linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib/mpi: avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:07:27 +0000
From:   Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@...teo.net>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ebiggers@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@...teo.net>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/mpi: avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()

During NVMeTCP Authentication a controller can trigger a kernel
oops by specifying the 8192 bit Diffie Hellman group and passing
a correctly sized, but zeroed Diffie Hellamn value.
mpi_cmp_ui() was detecting this if the second parameter was 0,
but 1 is passed from dh_is_pubkey_valid(). This causes the null
pointer u->d to be dereferenced towards the end of mpi_cmp_ui()

Signed-off-by: Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@...teo.net>
---
 lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c b/lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c
index c4cfa3ff0581..0835b6213235 100644
--- a/lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c
+++ b/lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ int mpi_cmp_ui(MPI u, unsigned long v)
 	mpi_limb_t limb = v;

 	mpi_normalize(u);
-	if (!u->nlimbs && !limb)
-		return 0;
+	if (u->nlimbs == 0) {
+		if (v == 0)
+			return 0;
+		else
+			return -1;
+	}
 	if (u->sign)
 		return -1;
 	if (u->nlimbs > 1)
-- 
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