From: Jeff Layton <jlayton-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
linux-cifs <linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix BUG() in calc_seckey()
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:57:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1476799048.8356.2.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476736822-30098-1-git-send-email-sprabhu-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 16:40 -0400, Sachin Prabhu wrote:
> Andy Lutromirski's new virtually mapped kernel stack allocations moves
> kernel stacks the vmalloc area. This triggers the bug
> kernel BUG at ./include/linux/scatterlist.h:140!
> at calc_seckey()->sg_init()
>
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> ---
> fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> index 8347c90..5eb0412 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> @@ -808,7 +808,11 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
> struct crypto_skcipher *tfm_arc4;
> struct scatterlist sgin, sgout;
> struct skcipher_request *req;
> - unsigned char sec_key[CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE]; /* a nonce */
> + unsigned char *sec_key;
> +
> + sec_key = kmalloc(CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (sec_key == NULL)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> get_random_bytes(sec_key, CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE);
>
> @@ -816,7 +820,7 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
> if (IS_ERR(tfm_arc4)) {
> rc = PTR_ERR(tfm_arc4);
> cifs_dbg(VFS, "could not allocate crypto API arc4\n");
> - return rc;
> + goto out;
> }
>
> rc = crypto_skcipher_setkey(tfm_arc4, ses->auth_key.response,
> @@ -854,7 +858,8 @@ calc_seckey(struct cifs_ses *ses)
>
> out_free_cipher:
> crypto_free_skcipher(tfm_arc4);
> -
> +out:
> + kfree(sec_key);
> return rc;
> }
>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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2016-10-17 20:40 [PATCH] Fix BUG() in calc_seckey() Sachin Prabhu
[not found] ` <1476736822-30098-1-git-send-email-sprabhu-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-18 12:46 ` Sachin Prabhu
2016-10-18 13:57 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
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