Re: [PATCH 4.14, 4.9] crypto: talitos - fix Kernel Oops on hashing an empty file

From: Christophe LEROY
Date: Thu Feb 22 2018 - 05:17:59 EST




Le 22/02/2018 Ã 09:30, Horia GeantÄ a ÃcritÂ:
On 2/22/2018 9:08 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Upstream 87a81dce53b1ea61acaeefa5191a0376a2d1d721

Performing the hash of an empty file leads to a kernel Oops

[ 44.504600] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000000c
[ 44.512819] Faulting instruction address: 0xc02d2be8
[ 44.524088] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[ 44.529171] BE PREEMPT CMPC885
[ 44.532232] CPU: 0 PID: 491 Comm: md5sum Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8-00211-g3a968610b6ea #81
[ 44.540814] NIP: c02d2be8 LR: c02d2984 CTR: 00000000
[ 44.545812] REGS: c6813c90 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.15.0-rc8-00211-g3a968610b6ea)
[ 44.554223] MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 48222822 XER: 20000000
[ 44.560855] DAR: 0000000c DSISR: c0000000
[ 44.560855] GPR00: c02d28fc c6813d40 c6828000 c646fa40 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000000
[ 44.560855] GPR08: 0000004c 00000000 c000bfcc 00000000 28222822 100280d4 00000000 10020008
[ 44.560855] GPR16: 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 10024008 00000000 c646f9f0 c6179a10
[ 44.560855] GPR24: 00000000 00000001 c62f0018 c6179a10 00000000 c6367a30 c62f0000 c646f9c0
[ 44.598542] NIP [c02d2be8] ahash_process_req+0x448/0x700
[ 44.603751] LR [c02d2984] ahash_process_req+0x1e4/0x700
[ 44.608868] Call Trace:
[ 44.611329] [c6813d40] [c02d28fc] ahash_process_req+0x15c/0x700 (unreliable)
[ 44.618302] [c6813d90] [c02060c4] hash_recvmsg+0x11c/0x210
[ 44.623716] [c6813db0] [c0331354] ___sys_recvmsg+0x98/0x138
[ 44.629226] [c6813eb0] [c03332c0] __sys_recvmsg+0x40/0x84
[ 44.634562] [c6813f10] [c03336c0] SyS_socketcall+0xb8/0x1d4
[ 44.640073] [c6813f40] [c000d1ac] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
[ 44.645530] Instruction dump:
[ 44.648465] 38c00001 7f63db78 4e800421 7c791b78 54690ffe 0f090000 80ff0190 2f870000
[ 44.656122] 40befe50 2f990001 409e0210 813f01bc <8129000c> b39e003a 7d29c214 913e003c

This patch fixes that Oops by checking if src is NULL.

Fixes: 6a1e8d14156d4 ("crypto: talitos - making mapping helpers more generic")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>

Isn't this needed also in 4.15.y?

It is already in 4.15, see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/crypto/talitos.c?h=v4.15.4&id=e76a4b126d1e7fbd0124cb885331a45e9a24f32b

Christophe


Thanks,
Horia