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Commit bd975d1e authored by Rabin Vincent's avatar Rabin Vincent Committed by Steve French
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cifs: fix crash due to race in hmac(md5) handling



The secmech hmac(md5) structures are present in the TCP_Server_Info
struct and can be shared among multiple CIFS sessions.  However, the
server mutex is not currently held when these structures are allocated
and used, which can lead to a kernel crashes, as in the scenario below:

mount.cifs(8) #1				mount.cifs(8) #2

Is secmech.sdeschmaccmd5 allocated?
// false

						Is secmech.sdeschmaccmd5 allocated?
						// false

secmech.hmacmd = crypto_alloc_shash..
secmech.sdeschmaccmd5 = kzalloc..
sdeschmaccmd5->shash.tfm = &secmec.hmacmd;

						secmech.sdeschmaccmd5 = kzalloc
						// sdeschmaccmd5->shash.tfm
						// not yet assigned

crypto_shash_update()
 deref NULL sdeschmaccmd5->shash.tfm

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000030
 epc   : 8027ba34 crypto_shash_update+0x38/0x158
 ra    : 8020f2e8 setup_ntlmv2_rsp+0x4bc/0xa84
 Call Trace:
  crypto_shash_update+0x38/0x158
  setup_ntlmv2_rsp+0x4bc/0xa84
  build_ntlmssp_auth_blob+0xbc/0x34c
  sess_auth_rawntlmssp_authenticate+0xac/0x248
  CIFS_SessSetup+0xf0/0x178
  cifs_setup_session+0x4c/0x84
  cifs_get_smb_ses+0x2c8/0x314
  cifs_mount+0x38c/0x76c
  cifs_do_mount+0x98/0x440
  mount_fs+0x20/0xc0
  vfs_kern_mount+0x58/0x138
  do_mount+0x1e8/0xccc
  SyS_mount+0x88/0xd4
  syscall_common+0x30/0x54

Fix this by locking the srv_mutex around the code which uses these
hmac(md5) structures.  All the other secmech algos already have similar
locking.

Fixes: 95dc8dd1 ("Limit allocation of crypto mechanisms to dialect which requires")
Signed-off-by: default avatarRabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
parent b782fcc1
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