* [PATCH 6.1/6.6/6.12.y] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad: Don't WARN on an empty digest
@ 2026-07-20 19:15 Doruk Tan Ozturk
2026-07-22 0:53 ` Sasha Levin
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From: Doruk Tan Ozturk @ 2026-07-20 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable; +Cc: herbert, linux-crypto, linux-kernel, Doruk Tan Ozturk
KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY lets an unprivileged caller supply a zero-length
digest (in_len == 0). keyctl_pkey_params_get_2() accepts the zero
length and the request reaches pkcs1pad_verify(), where the empty
digest is rejected but only after being passed through
WARN_ON(!digest_size). The warning is therefore directly
user-triggerable, and on kernels built with panic_on_warn=1 an
unprivileged process can panic the machine -- a local denial of
service. Reproduced as UID 65534 in a setuid sandbox.
Keep rejecting the invalid request with -EINVAL, but do not emit a
warning for the user-controlled length.
Mainline does not contain this code path; commit 1e562deacecc
("crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Migrate to sig_alg backend") removed
pkcs1pad_verify() in v6.13-rc1. This is a minimal fix for the
affected stable branches. It applies as-is to 6.1.y, 6.6.y and
6.12.y (identical pkcs1pad_verify); the 5.10.y/5.15.y form is sent
as a separate patch due to the older req->dst_len spelling.
Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Fixes: c7381b012872 ("crypto: akcipher - new verify API for public key algorithms")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: 0sec:multi-model
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>
---
crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c
index cd501195f34a..225fcc3377dd 100644
--- a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c
+++ b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int pkcs1pad_verify(struct akcipher_request *req)
const unsigned int digest_size = req->dst_len;
int err;
- if (WARN_ON(req->dst) || WARN_ON(!digest_size) ||
+ if (WARN_ON(req->dst) || !digest_size ||
!ctx->key_size || sig_size != ctx->key_size)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.43.0
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2026-07-20 19:15 [PATCH 6.1/6.6/6.12.y] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad: Don't WARN on an empty digest Doruk Tan Ozturk
@ 2026-07-22 0:53 ` Sasha Levin
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2026-07-22 0:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable; +Cc: Sasha Levin, herbert, linux-crypto, linux-kernel,
Doruk Tan Ozturk
> KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY lets an unprivileged caller supply a zero-length
> digest (in_len == 0). keyctl_pkey_params_get_2() accepts the zero
> length and the request reaches pkcs1pad_verify(), where the empty
> digest is rejected but only after being passed through
> WARN_ON(!digest_size).
[...]
> Mainline does not contain this code path; commit 1e562deacecc
> ("crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Migrate to sig_alg backend") removed
> pkcs1pad_verify() in v6.13-rc1. This is a minimal fix for the
> affected stable branches.
The fix looks correct to me and matches the mainline end state (the
sig_alg replacement rejects an empty digest with a plain -EINVAL and
no WARN). But since this is a stable-only patch with no upstream
commit to reference, I'd like a crypto maintainer ack before queueing
it.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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