FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: arm64/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: arm64/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4a8108b70508df0b6c4ffa4a3974dab93dcbe851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 23:46:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: arm64/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv

If the user-provided IV needs to be aligned to the algorithm's
alignmask, then skcipher_walk_virt() copies the IV into a new aligned
buffer walk.iv.  But skcipher_walk_virt() can fail afterwards, and then
if the caller unconditionally accesses walk.iv, it's a use-after-free.

xts-aes-neonbs doesn't set an alignmask, so currently it isn't affected
by this despite unconditionally accessing walk.iv.  However this is more
subtle than desired, and unconditionally accessing walk.iv has caused a
real problem in other algorithms.  Thus, update xts-aes-neonbs to start
checking the return value of skcipher_walk_virt().

Fixes: 1abee99eafab ("crypto: arm64/aes - reimplement bit-sliced ARM/NEON implementation for arm64")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
index 4737b6c6c5cf..514455117733 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ static int __xts_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req,
 	int err;
 
 	err = skcipher_walk_virt(&walk, req, false);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	kernel_neon_begin();
 	neon_aes_ecb_encrypt(walk.iv, walk.iv, ctx->twkey, ctx->key.rounds, 1);