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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-09-08 14:33:50 +1000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-10-26 21:06:03 +0100
commit4741b69849e0b01077becf6d2cb902dca9984d01 (patch)
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crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup
commit 77dbd7a95e4a4f15264c333a9e9ab97ee27dc2aa upstream. crypto_larval_lookup should only return a larval if it created one. Any larval created by another entity must be processed through crypto_larval_wait before being returned. Otherwise this will lead to a larval being killed twice, which will most likely lead to a crash. Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/api.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c
index 033a714..cea3cf6 100644
--- a/crypto/api.c
+++ b/crypto/api.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_alg_sem);
BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(crypto_chain);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_chain);
+static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_wait(struct crypto_alg *alg);
+
static inline struct crypto_alg *crypto_alg_get(struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
atomic_inc(&alg->cra_refcnt);
@@ -150,8 +152,11 @@ static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_add(const char *name, u32 type,
}
up_write(&crypto_alg_sem);
- if (alg != &larval->alg)
+ if (alg != &larval->alg) {
kfree(larval);
+ if (crypto_is_larval(alg))
+ alg = crypto_larval_wait(alg);
+ }
return alg;
}