[PATCH 6.1 0130/1191] SUNRPC: harden gss_krb5_unwrap_v2 against short tokens

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 15:33:10
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chris Mason <redacted>

commit 6959297aaa9572783d620a226d73c3fb94494888 upstream.

gss_krb5_unwrap_v2() reads the EC and RRC header fields at ptr+4 and
ptr+6 before validating that the token is at least GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN
(16) bytes long, and its rotate_left() helper passes buf->len - base
to xdr_buf_subsegment() without verifying that base <= buf->len. When
a caller hands in a sub-16-byte token, or a token whose declared len
leaves base past the end of the buffer, three distinct failures follow:

    gss_krb5_unwrap_v2(offset, len, buf)
      ptr = buf->head[0].iov_base + offset
      ec  = *(ptr + 4)              /* OOB read on short head */
      rrc = *(ptr + 6)              /* OOB read on short head */
      rotate_left(offset + 16, buf, rrc)
        xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &subbuf,
                           base, buf->len - base)   /* u32 wrap when base > len */
        _rotate_left(&subbuf, shift)
          shift %= buf->len         /* divide-by-zero when base == len */

After decryption, the cleanup arithmetic has the same shape:

    movelen = min_t(unsigned int, buf->head[0].iov_len, len);
    movelen -= offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;
    BUG_ON(offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip + movelen >
                                            buf->head[0].iov_len);

The BUG_ON re-adds the value just subtracted, so it reduces to
min(A, B) > A and is permanently false; it cannot catch the unsigned
underflow of movelen, which then drives a ~UINT_MAX-byte memmove().

Add four defense-in-depth guards inside the unwrap core so it is safe
regardless of what its callers validate:

  - reject tokens with len - offset < GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN before
    touching ptr+4/ptr+6;
  - bail from rotate_left() when buf->len <= base, covering both the
    underflow and zero-length cases;
  - return early from _rotate_left() when buf->len is zero, so the
    shift %= buf->len modulo cannot fault;
  - replace the dead BUG_ON with a live check that returns
    GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN before the movelen subtraction.

Fixes: de9c17eb4a91 ("gss_krb5: add support for new token formats in rfc4121")
Cc: <redacted>
Assisted-by: kres (claude-opus-4-7)
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260524010213.557424-5-cel@kernel.org (local)
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_wrap.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_wrap.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_wrap.c
@@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ static void _rotate_left(struct xdr_buf
 	int shifted = 0;
 	int this_shift;
 
+	if (!buf->len)
+		return;
 	shift %= buf->len;
 	while (shifted < shift) {
 		this_shift = min(shift - shifted, LOCAL_BUF_LEN);
@@ -401,6 +403,8 @@ static void rotate_left(u32 base, struct
 {
 	struct xdr_buf subbuf;
 
+	if (buf->len <= base)
+		return;
 	xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &subbuf, base, buf->len - base);
 	_rotate_left(&subbuf, shift);
 }
@@ -476,6 +480,9 @@ gss_unwrap_kerberos_v2(struct krb5_ctx *
 	if (kctx->gk5e->decrypt_v2 == NULL)
 		return GSS_S_FAILURE;
 
+	if (len - offset <= GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN)
+		return GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN;
+
 	ptr = buf->head[0].iov_base + offset;
 
 	if (be16_to_cpu(*((__be16 *)ptr)) != KG2_TOK_WRAP)
@@ -542,9 +549,9 @@ gss_unwrap_kerberos_v2(struct krb5_ctx *
 	 * head buffer space rather than that actually occupied.
 	 */
 	movelen = min_t(unsigned int, buf->head[0].iov_len, len);
+	if (movelen < offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip)
+		return GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN;
 	movelen -= offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;
-	BUG_ON(offset + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip + movelen >
-							buf->head[0].iov_len);
 	memmove(ptr, ptr + GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip, movelen);
 	buf->head[0].iov_len -= GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip;
 	buf->len = len - (GSS_KRB5_TOK_HDR_LEN + headskip);

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