[ 02/40] crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 21:34:29 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 77dbd7a95e4a4f15264c333a9e9ab97ee27dc2aa upstream.

crypto_larval_lookup should only return a larval if it created one.
Any larval created by another entity must be processed through
crypto_larval_wait before being returned.

Otherwise this will lead to a larval being killed twice, which
will most likely lead to a crash.

Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
crypto/api.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/crypto/api.c
+++ b/crypto/api.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ static inline struct crypto_alg *crypto_
return alg;
}

+static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_wait(struct crypto_alg *alg);
+
struct crypto_alg *crypto_mod_get(struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
return try_module_get(alg->cra_module) ? crypto_alg_get(alg) : NULL;
@@ -150,8 +152,11 @@ static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_
}
up_write(&crypto_alg_sem);

- if (alg != &larval->alg)
+ if (alg != &larval->alg) {
kfree(larval);
+ if (crypto_is_larval(alg))
+ alg = crypto_larval_wait(alg);
+ }

return alg;
}


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