Re: [PATCH] lib/mpi: avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui()

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 12:07:27AM +0000, Mark O'Donovan wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/mpi/mpi-cmp.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Could you please resend this to linux-crypto?

Thanks,
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