[PATCH v5 2/2] KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature()

Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com
Thu Feb 9 10:49:19 UTC 2023


On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 09:27 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-12-29 at 14:39 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 03:27:40PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> > > 
> > > Commit ac4e97abce9b8 ("scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear
> > > mapping") checks that both the signature and the digest reside in the
> > > linear mapping area.
> > > 
> > > However, more recently commit ba14a194a434c ("fork: Add generic vmalloced
> > > stack support") made it possible to move the stack in the vmalloc area,
> > > which is not contiguous, and thus not suitable for sg_set_buf() which needs
> > > adjacent pages.
> > > 
> > > Always make a copy of the signature and digest in the same buffer used to
> > > store the key and its parameters, and pass them to sg_init_one(). Prefer it
> > > to conditionally doing the copy if necessary, to keep the code simple. The
> > > buffer allocated with kmalloc() is in the linear mapping area.
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 4.9.x
> > > Fixes: ba14a194a434 ("fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support")
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/Y4pIpxbjBdajymBJ@sol.localdomain/
> > > Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >  crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++-------------
> > >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
> 
> Hi David
> 
> could you please take this patch in your repo, if it is ok?

Kindly ask your support here. Has this patch been queued somewhere?
Wasn't able to find it, also it is not in linux-next.

Thanks

Roberto



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