[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] dm-crypt: mark key as invalid until properly loaded

Ondrej Kozina okozina at redhat.com
Mon Nov 7 09:38:13 UTC 2016


(just for reference. the patch's been already posted on dm-devel)

on crypt_message() key set code path while loading new key
replacing the old one in case tfm->setkey() fails
we would end having invalid key in crypto layer but
DM_CRYPT_KEY_VALID flag set.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index a276883..0aedd0e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -1503,12 +1503,15 @@ static int crypt_set_key(struct crypt_config *cc, char *key)
 	if (!cc->key_size && strcmp(key, "-"))
 		goto out;
 
+	/* clear the flag since following operations may invalidate previously valid key */
+	clear_bit(DM_CRYPT_KEY_VALID, &cc->flags);
+
 	if (cc->key_size && crypt_decode_key(cc->key, key, cc->key_size) < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	set_bit(DM_CRYPT_KEY_VALID, &cc->flags);
-
 	r = crypt_setkey_allcpus(cc);
+	if (!r)
+		set_bit(DM_CRYPT_KEY_VALID, &cc->flags);
 
 out:
 	/* Hex key string not needed after here, so wipe it. */
-- 
2.7.4




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