[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm crypt: fix access beyond the end of allocated space

[Mikulas Patocka]

Hi

This is backport of upstream commit 
d49ec52ff6ddcda178fc2476a109cf1bd1fa19ed. It is suitable for all stable 
kernels.

Mikulas


From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>

The DM crypt target accesses memory beyond allocated space resulting in
a crash on 32 bit x86 systems.

This bug is very old (it dates back to 2.6.25 commit 3a7f6c990ad04 "dm
crypt: use async crypto").  However, this bug was masked by the fact
that kmalloc rounds the size up to the next power of two.  This bug
wasn't exposed until 3.17-rc1 commit 298a9fa08a ("dm crypt: use per-bio
data").  By switching to using per-bio data there was no longer any
padding beyond the end of a dm-crypt allocated memory block.

To minimize allocation overhead dm-crypt puts several structures into one
block allocated with kmalloc.  The block holds struct ablkcipher_request,
cipher-specific scratch pad (crypto_ablkcipher_reqsize(any_tfm(cc))),
struct dm_crypt_request and an initialization vector.

The variable dmreq_start is set to offset of struct dm_crypt_request
within this memory block.  dm-crypt allocates the block with this size:
cc->dmreq_start + sizeof(struct dm_crypt_request) + cc->iv_size.

When accessing the initialization vector, dm-crypt uses the function
iv_of_dmreq, which performs this calculation: ALIGN((unsigned long)(dmreq
+ 1), crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc)) + 1).

dm-crypt allocated "cc->iv_size" bytes beyond the end of dm_crypt_request
structure.  However, when dm-crypt accesses the initialization vector, it
takes a pointer to the end of dm_crypt_request, aligns it, and then uses
it as the initialization vector.  If the end of dm_crypt_request is not
aligned on a crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc)) boundary the
alignment causes the initialization vector to point beyond the allocated
space.

Fix this bug by calculating the variable iv_size_padding and adding it
to the allocated size.

Also correct the alignment of dm_crypt_request.  struct dm_crypt_request
is specific to dm-crypt (it isn't used by the crypto subsystem at all),
so it is aligned on __alignof__(struct dm_crypt_request).

---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-3.14.18/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.14.18.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2014-09-11 18:59:10.931906801 +0200
+++ linux-3.14.18/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2014-09-11 18:59:39.787718135 +0200
@@ -1681,6 +1681,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *t
 	unsigned int key_size, opt_params;
 	unsigned long long tmpll;
 	int ret;
+	size_t iv_size_padding;
 	struct dm_arg_set as;
 	const char *opt_string;
 	char dummy;
@@ -1717,12 +1718,23 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *t
 
 	cc->dmreq_start = sizeof(struct ablkcipher_request);
 	cc->dmreq_start += crypto_ablkcipher_reqsize(any_tfm(cc));
-	cc->dmreq_start = ALIGN(cc->dmreq_start, crypto_tfm_ctx_alignment());
-	cc->dmreq_start += crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc)) &
-			   ~(crypto_tfm_ctx_alignment() - 1);
+	cc->dmreq_start = ALIGN(cc->dmreq_start, __alignof__(struct dm_crypt_request));
+
+	if (crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc)) < CRYPTO_MINALIGN) {
+		/* Allocate the padding exactly */
+		iv_size_padding = -(cc->dmreq_start + sizeof(struct dm_crypt_request))
+				& crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc));
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * If the cipher requires greater alignment than kmalloc
+		 * alignment, we don't know the exact position of the
+		 * initialization vector. We must assume worst case.
+		 */
+		iv_size_padding = crypto_ablkcipher_alignmask(any_tfm(cc));
+	}
 
 	cc->req_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(MIN_IOS, cc->dmreq_start +
-			sizeof(struct dm_crypt_request) + cc->iv_size);
+			sizeof(struct dm_crypt_request) + iv_size_padding + cc->iv_size);
 	if (!cc->req_pool) {
 		ti->error = "Cannot allocate crypt request mempool";
 		goto bad;