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crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup
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commit 77dbd7a 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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herbertx authored and kamalmostafa committed Sep 20, 2013
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion crypto/api.c
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Expand Up @@ -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;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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;
}
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