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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: salsa20 - don't access already-freed walk.iv" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
@ 2019-05-17 12:30 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2019-05-17 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ebiggers, herbert; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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 edaf28e996af69222b2cb40455dbb5459c2b875a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 23:46:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: salsa20 - 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.

salsa20-generic 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 it was actually broken prior to the alignmask
being removed by commit b62b3db76f73 ("crypto: salsa20-generic - cleanup
and convert to skcipher API").

Since salsa20-generic does not update the IV and does not need any IV
alignment, update it to use req->iv instead of walk.iv.

Fixes: 2407d60872dd ("[CRYPTO] salsa20: Salsa20 stream cipher")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/crypto/salsa20_generic.c b/crypto/salsa20_generic.c
index 443fba09cbed..faed244be316 100644
--- a/crypto/salsa20_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/salsa20_generic.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int salsa20_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req)
 
 	err = skcipher_walk_virt(&walk, req, false);
 
-	salsa20_init(state, ctx, walk.iv);
+	salsa20_init(state, ctx, req->iv);
 
 	while (walk.nbytes > 0) {
 		unsigned int nbytes = walk.nbytes;


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