From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 094162F619A; Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767720558; cv=none; b=Ky4xB+rfx4DqpO/o82xZpWaRjH8POaUDmJTwifRsJ45oeUOooXdxnR/sAHbXjPXHbgv70sPZWd9WRyjylXFiH0jZn+iZat1dOfNhMX6qlcKR4Uwt2MaA9atIoFEdtjJeyR7P4q6IAA40AGObNyxR4oIk+NODKStFqvAGGPwV54o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767720558; c=relaxed/simple; bh=aVdQN2SsjahEBJugKFXYtIG5Ek8JifqiO8RCfZq2zyk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=DXszFlvMBsBEFdBw+N7RJXXxv1mHsk5YaiFMtjoLFRtqoLkMqi+GB2InMOixwqu1XYPaQpwnLmKT+YshZkU7jaHJhpg2mBQlktrdhsXpMZduEwFaDz6fRjh8zP1Oqzjqwbxk9kSiaB4Jakw+XCi3cH682HIXQleJ/Ul0xow/Ar4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=2l6iiiuu; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="2l6iiiuu" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 674E1C116C6; Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:29:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1767720557; bh=aVdQN2SsjahEBJugKFXYtIG5Ek8JifqiO8RCfZq2zyk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=2l6iiiuuCA58HFx7577ynU1pkvoT3ohaMO4o8SkCejMIZgpBC3Frmqf1B7+ja4YZC lqeD4drOUcCIXz+sppowvRZuSYOHhpuAJKM8BuX5a0dfeaexa0loStTF2GmLQf+Yeh wMLKkEoI1jjzqEkQpO8mpkcdVy5S7sQY5ZjNXlF0= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Shivani Agarwal , Herbert Xu Subject: [PATCH 6.12 272/567] crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:00:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20260106170501.389125561@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260106170451.332875001@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260106170451.332875001@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Shivani Agarwal commit 6f6e309328d53a10c0fe1f77dec2db73373179b6 upstream. Several crypto user API contexts and requests allocated with sock_kmalloc() were left uninitialized, relying on callers to set fields explicitly. This resulted in the use of uninitialized data in certain error paths or when new fields are added in the future. The ACVP patches also contain two user-space interface files: algif_kpp.c and algif_akcipher.c. These too rely on proper initialization of their context structures. A particular issue has been observed with the newly added 'inflight' variable introduced in af_alg_ctx by commit: 67b164a871af ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests") Because the context is not memset to zero after allocation, the inflight variable has contained garbage values. As a result, af_alg_alloc_areq() has incorrectly returned -EBUSY randomly when the garbage value was interpreted as true: https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/master/crypto/af_alg.c#L1209 The check directly tests ctx->inflight without explicitly comparing against true/false. Since inflight is only ever set to true or false later, an uninitialized value has triggered -EBUSY failures. Zero-initializing memory allocated with sock_kmalloc() ensures inflight and other fields start in a known state, removing random issues caused by uninitialized data. Fixes: fe869cdb89c9 ("crypto: algif_hash - User-space interface for hash operations") Fixes: 5afdfd22e6ba ("crypto: algif_rng - add random number generator support") Fixes: 2d97591ef43d ("crypto: af_alg - consolidation of duplicate code") Fixes: 67b164a871af ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shivani Agarwal Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- crypto/af_alg.c | 5 ++--- crypto/algif_hash.c | 3 +-- crypto/algif_rng.c | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/crypto/af_alg.c +++ b/crypto/af_alg.c @@ -1212,15 +1212,14 @@ struct af_alg_async_req *af_alg_alloc_ar if (unlikely(!areq)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + memset(areq, 0, areqlen); + ctx->inflight = true; areq->areqlen = areqlen; areq->sk = sk; areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgt.sgl = areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgl; - areq->last_rsgl = NULL; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&areq->rsgl_list); - areq->tsgl = NULL; - areq->tsgl_entries = 0; return areq; } --- a/crypto/algif_hash.c +++ b/crypto/algif_hash.c @@ -416,9 +416,8 @@ static int hash_accept_parent_nokey(void if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM; - ctx->result = NULL; + memset(ctx, 0, len); ctx->len = len; - ctx->more = false; crypto_init_wait(&ctx->wait); ask->private = ctx; --- a/crypto/algif_rng.c +++ b/crypto/algif_rng.c @@ -248,9 +248,8 @@ static int rng_accept_parent(void *priva if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM; + memset(ctx, 0, len); ctx->len = len; - ctx->addtl = NULL; - ctx->addtl_len = 0; /* * No seeding done at that point -- if multiple accepts are