From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Tianchu Chen <tianchu.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
davem@davemloft.net, wens@kernel.org, jernej.skrabec@gmail.com,
samuel@sholland.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss - clamp PRNG seed length to prevent heap overflow
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 09:10:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260529161057.GA2706@sol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d4407c05835a50413fa1e974e3aa3f4abfe2d5b@linux.dev>
On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 08:08:01AM +0000, Tianchu Chen wrote:
> From: Tianchu Chen <flynnnchen@tencent.com>
>
> sun4i_ss_prng_seed() copies the user-supplied seed into ss->seed
> using the user-provided length with no bounds check. The crypto core
> does not enforce slen <= seedsize before calling into the driver, so a
> userspace caller via AF_ALG setsockopt(ALG_SET_KEY) can pass up to
> sysctl_optmem_max bytes, overflowing the fixed-size buffer and
> corrupting adjacent heap memory.
>
> Clamp the copy length to the buffer size, matching the approach used by
> loongson-rng for oversized seeds.
>
> Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.
>
> Fixes: 6298e948215f ("crypto: sunxi-ss - Add Allwinner Security System crypto accelerator")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tianchu Chen <flynnnchen@tencent.com>
> ---
> v2: Silently clamp oversized seeds with min_t instead of returning
> -EINVAL (Herbert Xu).
sun4i-ss-prng.c is useless, is still broken, and should just be deleted.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-29 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-28 14:53 [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: restrict PRNG seed length to prevent heap overflow Tianchu Chen
2026-05-29 6:11 ` Herbert Xu
2026-05-29 7:05 ` Tianchu Chen
2026-05-29 8:08 ` [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss - clamp " Tianchu Chen
2026-05-29 16:10 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-05-29 17:10 ` Corentin Labbe
2026-05-29 17:33 ` Eric Biggers
2026-05-29 19:41 ` Eric Biggers
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