FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: arm/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: arm/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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 767f015ea0b7ab9d60432ff6cd06b664fd71f50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 23:46:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: arm/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.

arm32 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 it was actually broken prior to
the alignmask being removed by commit cc477bf64573 ("crypto: arm/aes -
replace bit-sliced OpenSSL NEON code").  Thus, update xts-aes-neonbs to
start checking the return value of skcipher_walk_virt().

Fixes: e4e7f10bfc40 ("ARM: add support for bit sliced AES using NEON instructions")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c b/arch/arm/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
index 07e31941dc67..617c2c99ebfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
+++ b/arch/arm/crypto/aes-neonbs-glue.c
@@ -278,6 +278,8 @@ static int __xts_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req,
 	int err;
 
 	err = skcipher_walk_virt(&walk, req, true);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	crypto_cipher_encrypt_one(ctx->tweak_tfm, walk.iv, walk.iv);