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From 77dbd7a95e4a4f15264c333a9e9ab97ee27dc2aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 14:33:50 +1000
Subject: crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
commit 77dbd7a95e4a4f15264c333a9e9ab97ee27dc2aa upstream.
crypto_larval_lookup should only return a larval if it created one.
Any larval created by another entity must be processed through
crypto_larval_wait before being returned.
Otherwise this will lead to a larval being killed twice, which
will most likely lead to a crash.
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
crypto/api.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/api.c
+++ b/crypto/api.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_alg_sem);
BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(crypto_chain);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_chain);
+static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_wait(struct crypto_alg *alg);
+
struct crypto_alg *crypto_mod_get(struct crypto_alg *alg)
{
return try_module_get(alg->cra_module) ? crypto_alg_get(alg) : NULL;
@@ -144,8 +146,11 @@ static struct crypto_alg *crypto_larval_
}
up_write(&crypto_alg_sem);
- if (alg != &larval->alg)
+ if (alg != &larval->alg) {
kfree(larval);
+ if (crypto_is_larval(alg))
+ alg = crypto_larval_wait(alg);
+ }
return alg;
}