From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Kanchana P. Sridhar" <kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com>,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, yosry@kernel.org, nphamcs@gmail.com,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rientjes@google.com, willy@infradead.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] crypto: acomp - Add trivial segmentation wrapper.
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:25:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-202709@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106072412.7909-4-kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com>
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential
issues to consider:
- [Medium] crypto: acomp - missing non-zero unit_size check in
crypto_acomp_compress()
- [Medium] crypto: acomp - union type confusion in
acomp_reqchain_finish() on virt dst
--
commit c2a605231cabd5e0e15d6d778b3943a2c118d756
Author: Kanchana P. Sridhar <kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com>
crypto: acomp - Add trivial segmentation wrapper.
This commit adds a single-segment compression wrapper for algorithms that do
not natively support segmentation, returning the compressed length or error
in req->dst->length when req->unit_size is set.
> diff --git a/crypto/acompress.c b/crypto/acompress.c
> index c8b4b8589769e..ac4dc52668b89 100644
> --- a/crypto/acompress.c
> +++ b/crypto/acompress.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -242,6 +246,10 @@ static int acomp_reqchain_finish(struct acomp_req *req, int err)
> {
> acomp_reqchain_virt(req);
> acomp_restore_req(req);
> +
> + if (req->unit_size)
> + req->dst->length = unlikely(err) ? err : req->dlen;
> +
> return err;
> }
>
> @@ -266,10 +274,13 @@ static int acomp_do_req_chain(struct acomp_req *req, bool comp)
> {
> int err;
>
> + if (unlikely(req->unit_size && req->slen > req->unit_size))
> + return -ENOSYS;
[Severity: Medium]
Can acomp_reqchain_finish() corrupt the destination buffer when a request
with a non-zero req->unit_size uses virtual addresses?
In struct acomp_req, dst and dvirt share an anonymous union. When
acomp_do_req_chain() handles a virtual-address request
(CRYPTO_ACOMP_REQ_DST_VIRT), acomp_reqchain_virt() restores the raw u8 *
buffer pointer into req->dvirt before acomp_restore_req() restores
req->unit_size. Writing to req->dst->length then treats req->dvirt as a
struct scatterlist * and overwrites 4 bytes inside the caller's output
buffer.
In addition, acomp_do_req_chain() is called for decompression (comp == false),
so a decompression request with req->unit_size set will also hit the
compression-only req->slen > req->unit_size check and write to
req->dst->length.
> acomp_save_req(req, acomp_reqchain_done);
>
> err = acomp_do_one_req(req, comp);
> - if (err == -EBUSY || err == -EINPROGRESS)
> + if (unlikely(err == -EBUSY || err == -EINPROGRESS))
> return err;
>
> return acomp_reqchain_finish(req, err);
> @@ -279,10 +290,27 @@ int crypto_acomp_compress(struct acomp_req *req)
> {
> struct crypto_acomp *tfm = crypto_acomp_reqtfm(req);
>
> + if (likely((req->unit_size == req->slen) && acomp_request_issg(req) &&
> + !crypto_acomp_req_seg(tfm) && !acomp_is_async(tfm))) {
> + int err = tfm->compress(req);
> +
> + req->dst->length = unlikely(err) ? err : req->dlen;
> + return err;
> + }
[Severity: Medium]
Should this fast-path check also verify that req->unit_size is non-zero?
Callers that do not use segmentation leave req->unit_size at 0. If such a
caller submits a scatterlist request with req->slen == 0 on a synchronous
non-segmented transform, req->unit_size == req->slen is true, so
crypto_acomp_compress() enters the segmentation path and writes the negative
error from tfm->compress(req) into req->dst->length, corrupting the caller's
scatterlist or causing a NULL pointer dereference if req->dst is NULL (which
can also happen when req->unit_size is non-zero and req->dst is NULL here or
in acomp_reqchain_finish()).
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261106072412.7909-1-kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com?part=3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-07 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-06 7:24 [PATCH v3 0/8] Batched zswap_store() framework with compression batching Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] crypto: acomp - Define a unit_size in struct acomp_req to enable batching. mm: zswap: Set the unit size for zswap to PAGE_SIZE Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] crypto: acomp - Add bit to indicate segmentation support Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] crypto: acomp - Add trivial segmentation wrapper Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-07 7:25 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] crypto: acomp - Add API to get a compression algorithm's batch-size Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-07 7:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] mm: zswap: Store the folio's node id in the zswap_entry Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-07 7:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] mm: zswap: Store large folios in batches Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] mm: zswap: Refactor and optimize zswap_store_pages() batch operations Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-07 7:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] mm: zswap: Batched zswap_compress() for storing large folios in batches Kanchana P. Sridhar
2026-11-07 7:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 23:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Batched zswap_store() framework with compression batching Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-07 1:28 ` Kanchana P. Sridhar
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