[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bdf9b74bcf3035b872d8420277e0f7c2b313a537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 14:33:50 +1000
Subject: crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup

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 at chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 crypto/api.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/api.c b/crypto/api.c
index 3b61803..37c4c72 100644
--- 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_add(const char *name, u32 type,
 	}
 	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;
 }
--
1.8.1.2