Re: CRYPTO xcbc: Fix crash when ipsec uses xcbc-mac with big data chunk

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 07:28:23 EST


Hi;

17 Nis 2008 Per tarihinde, Chris Wright ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> ---------------------
>
> From: Joy Latten <latten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> upstream commit: 1edcf2e1ee2babb011cfca80ad9d202e9c491669
>
> The kernel crashes when ipsec passes a udp packet of about 14XX bytes
> of data to aes-xcbc-mac.
>
> It seems the first xxxx bytes of the data are in first sg entry,
> and remaining xx bytes are in next sg entry. But we don't
> check next sg entry to see if we need to go look the page up.
>
> I noticed in hmac.c, we do a scatterwalk_sg_next(), to do this check
> and possible lookup, thus xcbc.c needs to use this routine too.
>
> A 15-hour run of an ipsec stress test sending streams of tcp and
> udp packets of various sizes, using this patch and
> aes-xcbc-mac completed successfully, so hopefully this fixes the
> problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> crypto/xcbc.c | 17 +++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/crypto/xcbc.c
> +++ b/crypto/xcbc.c
> @@ -116,13 +116,11 @@ static int crypto_xcbc_digest_update2(st
> struct crypto_xcbc_ctx *ctx = crypto_hash_ctx_aligned(parent);
> struct crypto_cipher *tfm = ctx->child;
> int bs = crypto_hash_blocksize(parent);
> - unsigned int i = 0;
>
> - do {
> -
> - struct page *pg = sg_page(&sg[i]);
> - unsigned int offset = sg[i].offset;
> - unsigned int slen = sg[i].length;
> + for (;;) {
> + struct page *pg = sg_page(sg);
> + unsigned int offset = sg->offset;
> + unsigned int slen = sg->length;
>
> if (unlikely(slen > nbytes))
> slen = nbytes;
> @@ -182,8 +180,11 @@ static int crypto_xcbc_digest_update2(st
> offset = 0;
> pg++;
> }
> - i++;
> - } while (nbytes>0);
> +
> + if (!nbytes)
> + break;
> + sg = scatterwalk_sg_next(sg);
> + }
>
> return 0;
> }
>

zangetsu linux-2.6.24 # make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/linux/compile.h
LD crypto/built-in.o
CC [M] crypto/xcbc.o
crypto/xcbc.c: In function `crypto_xcbc_digest_update2':
crypto/xcbc.c:186: error: implicit declaration of function `scatterwalk_sg_next'
crypto/xcbc.c:186: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[1]: *** [crypto/xcbc.o] Hata 1
make: *** [crypto] Hata 2

Cheeers
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S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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