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crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 6 1
      crypto/api.c

+ 6 - 1
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;
 }