Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] s390/zcrypt: Pad trailing CCA or EP11 message with zeros

[Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>]

On 2026-07-29 19:07, sashiko-bot@kernel.org wrote:
> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential
> issue(s) to consider:
> 
> Pre-existing issues:
> - [High] This problem wasn't introduced by this patch, but an integer
> overflow and incomplete bounds checking in hardware response parsing
> allows a massive out-of-bounds kernel memory leak to userspace.
> --
> 
> --- Patch [5]: [PATCH v9 5/5] s390/zcrypt: Pad trailing CCA or EP11
> message with zeros ---
> commit 0141bfa352999fc87f7b7c58c7c727f991c4b416
> Author: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> s390/zcrypt: Pad trailing CCA or EP11 message with zeros
> 
> This patch fixes an information leak to the crypto card firmware. It 
> zeroes
> out the gap between the user space copied message and the message 
> buffer
> length sent to the CCA or EP11 message processing.
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype6.c 
>> b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype6.c
>> index da7580933c6f2..4a60540b07003 100644
>> --- a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype6.c
>> +++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype6.c
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, but I noticed an integer overflow and
> incomplete bounds checking in hardware response parsing that could 
> allow an
> out-of-bounds kernel memory leak to userspace.
> 
> In zcrypt_msgtype6_receive():
> 
>         if (t86r->fmt2.count2)
>             len = t86r->fmt2.offset2 + t86r->fmt2.count2;
>         else
>             len = t86r->fmt2.offset1 + t86r->fmt2.count1;
> 
> If a compromised or malicious crypto device firmware returns a response 
> where
> offset1 + count1 overflows 32-bit arithmetic, it might bypass the 
> buffer
> size check. Alternatively, if count2 is non-zero, the bounds check in
> zcrypt_msgtype6_receive() only validates offset2 + count2 and 
> completely
> ignores offset1 + count1.
> 
> Later in convert_type86_xcrb():
> 
>     if (z_copy_to_user(userspace, xcrb->reply_control_blk_addr,
>                data + msg->fmt2.offset1, msg->fmt2.count1))
>         return -EFAULT;
> 
> Since the bounds check can pass under those conditions, could offset1 
> be
> used as an unvalidated offset into kernel memory here, resulting in
> z_copy_to_user() copying out-of-bounds kernel memory into the 
> user-provided
> buffer?

maybe valid, will be covered with another patch series (bugzilla 220850 
opened)