[PATCH 1/2] big key: get rid of stack array allocation
From: Eric Biggers <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-15 01:51:39
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:29:06PM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
We're interested in getting rid of all of the stack allocated arrays in the kernel [1]. This patch removes one in keys by switching to malloc/free. Note that we use kzalloc, to avoid leaking the nonce. I'm not sure this is really necessary, but extra paranoia seems prudent. Manually tested using the program from the add_key man page to trigger big_key. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <redacted> CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> CC: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> --- security/keys/big_key.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/security/keys/big_key.c b/security/keys/big_key.c index fa728f662a6f..70f9f785c59d 100644 --- a/security/keys/big_key.c +++ b/security/keys/big_key.c@@ -108,13 +108,18 @@ static int big_key_crypt(enum big_key_op op, struct big_key_buf *buf, size_t dat * an .update function, so there's no chance we'll wind up reusing the * key to encrypt updated data. Simply put: one key, one encryption. */ - u8 zero_nonce[crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead)]; + u8 *zero_nonce; + + zero_nonce = kzalloc(crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!zero_nonce) + return -ENOMEM; aead_req = aead_request_alloc(big_key_aead, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!aead_req) + if (!aead_req) { + kfree(zero_nonce); return -ENOMEM; + } - memset(zero_nonce, 0, sizeof(zero_nonce)); aead_request_set_crypt(aead_req, buf->sg, buf->sg, datalen, zero_nonce); aead_request_set_callback(aead_req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP, NULL, NULL); aead_request_set_ad(aead_req, 0);@@ -131,6 +136,7 @@ static int big_key_crypt(enum big_key_op op, struct big_key_buf *buf, size_t dat error: mutex_unlock(&big_key_aead_lock); aead_request_free(aead_req); + kzfree(zero_nonce); return ret;
A dynamic allocation here doesn't make sense -- the algorithm is hard-coded to AES-GCM, so the IV size is fixed. You should just include <crypto/gcm.h> and use GCM_AES_IV_LEN. As a sanity check you can add 'BUG_ON(crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead) != GCM_AES_IV_LEN' to big_key_init(). kzfree() also doesn't make sense since the nonce is not secret information. Thanks, Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html