[PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Add check for strsep
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Jan 24 19:15:06 UTC 2024
On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 18:21 +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 07:36 +0000, Chen Ni wrote:
> > Add check for strsep() in order to transfer the error.
> >
> > Fixes: cd3bc044af48 ("KEYS: encrypted: Instantiate key with user-
> > provided decrypted data")
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen at iscas.ac.cn>
> > ---
> > security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> > b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> > index 8af2136069d2..76f55dd13cb8 100644
> > --- a/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> > +++ b/security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c
> > @@ -237,6 +237,10 @@ static int datablob_parse(char *datablob, const
> > char **format,
> > break;
> > }
> > *decrypted_data = strsep(&datablob, " \t");
> > + if (!*decrypted_data) {
> > + pr_info("encrypted_key: decrypted_data is
> > missing\n");
> > + break;
> > + }
>
> Hello,
>
> This patch seems to break keyring usage in CXL and NVDIMM, with the
> "decrypted_data is missing" error path being hit. Reverting this commit
> fixes the tests. I'm not sure if there are valid scenarios where this is
> expected to be empty?
>
> Here's an strace snippet of where the error occurs:
>
> keyctl(KEYCTL_SEARCH, KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING, "user", "nvdimm-master", 0) = 76300785
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/platform/cxl_acpi.0/root0/nvdimm-bridge0/ndbus0/nmem0/state", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> read(3, "idle\n", 1024) = 5
> close(3) = 0
> keyctl(KEYCTL_SEARCH, KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING, "encrypted", "nvdimm:0", 0) = -1 ENOKEY (Required key not available)
> uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="fedora", ...}) = 0
> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ndctl/keys/nvdimm_0_fedora.blob", 0x7fff23fbc210, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> add_key("encrypted", "nvdimm:0", "new enc32 user:nvdimm-master 32", 31, KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
Indeed! The user-provided decrypted data should be optional. The change needs
to be reverted.
thanks,
Mimi
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