[PATCH] crypto: algif_skcipher: rewind rounded output bytes
From: Daehyeon Ko
Date: Sun Oct 04 2026 - 01:10:09 EST
af_alg_get_rsgl() advances the receive iterator by the unrounded RX
scatterlist length. For a continuing skcipher request,
_skcipher_recvmsg() then rounds its local length down to a whole chunksize
without restoring the iterator.
A later chunk starts after bytes which the provider never wrote, while the
syscall returns only the processed length. When copy_splice_read()
supplies non-zeroed pages and publishes that return as a dense prefix, the
gap exposes stale bytes from a previous page lifetime.
With unprivileged xts(aes), a 31-byte MSG_MORE request followed by one
final byte advances a 47-byte destination while returning 32 bytes. A
hardened v7.2-rc5 image retained all 15 seeded stale bytes in 4,829 of
4,829 records. With init_on_alloc enabled, all 72,345 gap bytes observed
were zero.
Rewind the iterator by the tail excluded during rounding, before rejecting
a zero processed length. The crypto request uses only the rounded length;
af_alg_free_resources() releases the entire RX list before another receive
iteration.
The fixed target-like kernel returned byte-identical dense 48-byte output
in 4,771 of 4,771 rounds. The unmodified kernel returned the vulnerable
32-byte short record in 2,409 of 2,409 rounds.
Fixes: e870456d8e7c ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
index 1e61fe6e24b99d..291dbd69893257 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
@@ -135,12 +135,16 @@ static int _skcipher_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
* full block size buffers.
*/
if (ctx->more || len < ctx->used) {
- if (len < bs) {
+ size_t excess = len % bs;
+
+ len -= excess;
+ iov_iter_revert(&msg->msg_iter, excess);
+
+ if (!len) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto free;
}
- len -= len % bs;
cflags |= CRYPTO_SKCIPHER_REQ_NOTFINAL;
}
--
2.55.0