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Pull key subsystem fixes from James Morris:
"Here are a bunch of fixes for Linux keyrings, including:
- Fix up the refcount handling now that key structs use the
refcount_t type and the refcount_t ops don't allow a 0->1
transition.
- Fix a potential NULL deref after error in x509_cert_parse().
- Don't put data for the crypto algorithms to use on the stack.
- Fix the handling of a null payload being passed to add_key().
- Fix incorrect cleanup an uninitialised key_preparsed_payload in
key_update().
- Explicit sanitisation of potentially secure data before freeing.
- Fixes for the Diffie-Helman code"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
KEYS: fix refcount_inc() on zero
KEYS: Convert KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE to use the crypto KPP API
crypto : asymmetric_keys : verify_pefile:zero memory content before freeing
KEYS: DH: add __user annotations to keyctl_kdf_params
KEYS: DH: ensure the KDF counter is properly aligned
KEYS: DH: don't feed uninitialized "otherinfo" into KDF
KEYS: DH: forbid using digest_null as the KDF hash
KEYS: sanitize key structs before freeing
KEYS: trusted: sanitize all key material
KEYS: encrypted: sanitize all key material
KEYS: user_defined: sanitize key payloads
KEYS: sanitize add_key() and keyctl() key payloads
KEYS: fix freeing uninitialized memory in key_update()
KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL payload with nonzero length
KEYS: encrypted: use constant-time HMAC comparison
KEYS: encrypted: fix race causing incorrect HMAC calculations
KEYS: encrypted: fix buffer overread in valid_master_desc()
KEYS: encrypted: avoid encrypting/decrypting stack buffers
KEYS: put keyring if install_session_keyring_to_cred() fails
KEYS: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in get_derived_key()
...
Commit abb2ea7dfd82 ("compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused
static inline functions") just caused more warnings due to re-defining
the 'inline' macro.
So undef it before re-defining it, and also add the 'notrace' attribute
like the gcc version that this is overriding does.
Maybe this makes clang happier.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a key's refcount is dropped to zero between key_lookup() peeking at
the refcount and subsequently attempting to increment it, refcount_inc()
will see a zero refcount. Here, refcount_inc() will WARN_ONCE(), and
will *not* increment the refcount, which will remain zero.
Once key_lookup() drops key_serial_lock, it is possible for the key to
be freed behind our back.
This patch uses refcount_inc_not_zero() to perform the peek and increment
atomically.
Fixes: fff292914d3a2f1e ("security, keys: convert key.usage from atomic_t to refcount_t")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Pull randomness fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Improve performance by using a lockless update mechanism suggested by
Linus, and make sure we refresh per-CPU entropy returned get_random_*
as soon as the CRNG is initialized"
* tag 'random_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init
random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx
The initial Diffie-Hellman computation made direct use of the MPI
library because the crypto module did not support DH at the time. Now
that KPP is implemented, KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE should use it to get rid of
duplicate code and leverage possible hardware acceleration.
This fixes an issue whereby the input to the KDF computation would
include additional uninitialized memory when the result of the
Diffie-Hellman computation was shorter than the input prime number.
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix various bug fixes in ext4 caused by races and memory allocation
failures"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix fdatasync(2) after extent manipulation operations
ext4: fix data corruption for mmap writes
ext4: fix data corruption with EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO
ext4: fix quota charging for shared xattr blocks
ext4: remove redundant check for encrypted file on dio write path
ext4: remove unused d_name argument from ext4_search_dir() et al.
ext4: fix off-by-one error when writing back pages before dio read
ext4: fix off-by-one on max nr_pages in ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff()
ext4: keep existing extra fields when inode expands
ext4: handle the rest of ext4_mb_load_buddy() ENOMEM errors
ext4: fix off-by-in in loop termination in ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff()
ext4: fix SEEK_HOLE
jbd2: preserve original nofs flag during journal restart
ext4: clear lockdep subtype for quota files on quota off
It's possible that get_random_{u32,u64} is used before the crng has
initialized, in which case, its output might not be cryptographically
secure. For this problem, directly, this patch set is introducing the
*_wait variety of functions, but even with that, there's a subtle issue:
what happens to our batched entropy that was generated before
initialization. Prior to this commit, it'd stick around, supplying bad
numbers. After this commit, we force the entropy to be re-extracted
after each phase of the crng has initialized.
In order to avoid a race condition with the position counter, we
introduce a simple rwlock for this invalidation. Since it's only during
this awkward transition period, after things are all set up, we stop
using it, so that it doesn't have an impact on performance.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Loganaden Velvindron <logan@hackers.mu>
Signed-off-by: Yasir Auleear <yasirmx@hackers.mu>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Pull GPIO fixes from Linus Walleij:
"A few overdue GPIO patches for the v4.12 kernel.
- Fix debounce logic on the Aspeed platform.
- Fix the "virtual gpio" things on the Intel Crystal Cove.
- Fix the blink counter selection on the MVEBU platform"
* tag 'gpio-v4.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio:
gpio: mvebu: fix gpio bank registration when pwm is used
gpio: mvebu: fix blink counter register selection
MAINTAINERS: remove self from GPIO maintainers
gpio: crystalcove: Do not write regular gpio registers for virtual GPIOs
gpio: aspeed: Don't attempt to debounce if disabled
Currently, extent manipulation operations such as hole punch, range
zeroing, or extent shifting do not record the fact that file data has
changed and thus fdatasync(2) has a work to do. As a result if we crash
e.g. after a punch hole and fdatasync, user can still possibly see the
punched out data after journal replay. Test generic/392 fails due to
these problems.
Fix the problem by properly marking that file data has changed in these
operations.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a4bb6b64e39abc0e41ca077725f2a72c868e7622
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linus pointed out that there is a much more efficient way of avoiding
the problem that we were trying to address in commit 9dfa7bba35ac0:
"fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()".
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small driver fixes for 4.12-rc5. Nothing major here,
just some small bugfixes found by people testing, and a MAINTAINERS
file update for the genwqe driver.
All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
[ The cxl driver fix came in through the powerpc tree earlier ]
* tag 'char-misc-4.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts
mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias
drivers: char: mem: Fix wraparound check to allow mappings up to the end
MAINTAINERS: Change maintainer of genwqe driver
goldfish_pipe: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
firmware: vpd: do not leak kobjects
firmware: vpd: avoid potential use-after-free when destroying section
firmware: vpd: do not leave freed section attributes to the list
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