Re: [PATCH] crypto: pcrypt - Delay write to padata->info

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 02:30:28PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> These three events can race when pcrypt is used multiple times in a
> template ("pcrypt(pcrypt(...))"):
> 
>   1.  [taskA] The caller makes the crypto request via crypto_aead_encrypt()
>   2.  [kworkerB] padata serializes the inner pcrypt request
>   3.  [kworkerC] padata serializes the outer pcrypt request
> 
> 3 might finish before the call to crypto_aead_encrypt() returns in 1,
> resulting in two possible issues.
> 
> First, a use-after-free of the crypto request's memory when, for
> example, taskA writes to the outer pcrypt request's padata->info in
> pcrypt_aead_enc() after kworkerC completes the request.
> 
> Second, the outer pcrypt request overwrites the inner pcrypt request's
> return code with -EINPROGRESS, making a successful request appear to
> fail.  For instance, kworkerB writes the outer pcrypt request's
> padata->info in pcrypt_aead_done() and then taskA overwrites it
> in pcrypt_aead_enc().
> 
> Avoid both situations by delaying the write of padata->info until after
> the inner crypto request's return code is checked.  This prevents the
> use-after-free by not touching the crypto request's memory after the
> next-inner crypto request is made, and stops padata->info from being
> overwritten.
> 
> Fixes: 5068c7a883d16 ("crypto: pcrypt - Add pcrypt crypto parallelization wrapper")
> Reported-by: syzbot+b187b77c8474f9648fae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> So, pcrypt(pcrypt(...)) doesn't make all that much sense, but apparently
> there's not an easy way to prevent it [1], so I'm going with the minimal
> fix.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/20171230083744.vuclnbs677tj7pi2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>  crypto/pcrypt.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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