[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "crypto: s390 - fix des and des3_ede ctr concurrency issue" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Feb 20 21:37:56 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: s390 - fix des and des3_ede ctr concurrency issue

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 445ebb652454aa7c841350306a75a65beb24428f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Freudenberger <freude at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:01:33 +0100
Subject: crypto: s390 - fix des and des3_ede ctr concurrency issue

commit ee97dc7db4cbda33e4241c2d85b42d1835bc8a35 upstream.

In s390 des and 3des ctr mode there is one preallocated page
used to speed up the en/decryption. This page is not protected
against concurrent usage and thus there is a potential of data
corruption with multiple threads.

The fix introduces locking/unlocking the ctr page and a slower
fallback solution at concurrency situations.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/s390/crypto/des_s390.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/des_s390.c b/arch/s390/crypto/des_s390.c
index 4b28089..2d96e68 100644
--- a/arch/s390/crypto/des_s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/crypto/des_s390.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define DES3_KEY_SIZE	(3 * DES_KEY_SIZE)

 static u8 *ctrblk;
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ctrblk_lock);

 struct s390_des_ctx {
 	u8 iv[DES_BLOCK_SIZE];
@@ -368,54 +369,80 @@ static struct crypto_alg cbc_des3_alg = {
 	}
 };

+static unsigned int __ctrblk_init(u8 *ctrptr, unsigned int nbytes)
+{
+	unsigned int i, n;
+
+	/* align to block size, max. PAGE_SIZE */
+	n = (nbytes > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : nbytes & ~(DES_BLOCK_SIZE - 1);
+	for (i = DES_BLOCK_SIZE; i < n; i += DES_BLOCK_SIZE) {
+		memcpy(ctrptr + i, ctrptr + i - DES_BLOCK_SIZE, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		crypto_inc(ctrptr + i, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	}
+	return n;
+}
+
 static int ctr_desall_crypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, long func,
-			    struct s390_des_ctx *ctx, struct blkcipher_walk *walk)
+			    struct s390_des_ctx *ctx,
+			    struct blkcipher_walk *walk)
 {
 	int ret = blkcipher_walk_virt_block(desc, walk, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
-	unsigned int i, n, nbytes;
-	u8 buf[DES_BLOCK_SIZE];
-	u8 *out, *in;
+	unsigned int n, nbytes;
+	u8 buf[DES_BLOCK_SIZE], ctrbuf[DES_BLOCK_SIZE];
+	u8 *out, *in, *ctrptr = ctrbuf;
+
+	if (!walk->nbytes)
+		return ret;

-	memcpy(ctrblk, walk->iv, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	if (spin_trylock(&ctrblk_lock))
+		ctrptr = ctrblk;
+
+	memcpy(ctrptr, walk->iv, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
 	while ((nbytes = walk->nbytes) >= DES_BLOCK_SIZE) {
 		out = walk->dst.virt.addr;
 		in = walk->src.virt.addr;
 		while (nbytes >= DES_BLOCK_SIZE) {
-			/* align to block size, max. PAGE_SIZE */
-			n = (nbytes > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE :
-				nbytes & ~(DES_BLOCK_SIZE - 1);
-			for (i = DES_BLOCK_SIZE; i < n; i += DES_BLOCK_SIZE) {
-				memcpy(ctrblk + i, ctrblk + i - DES_BLOCK_SIZE,
-				       DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
-				crypto_inc(ctrblk + i, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
-			}
-			ret = crypt_s390_kmctr(func, ctx->key, out, in, n, ctrblk);
-			if (ret < 0 || ret != n)
+			if (ctrptr == ctrblk)
+				n = __ctrblk_init(ctrptr, nbytes);
+			else
+				n = DES_BLOCK_SIZE;
+			ret = crypt_s390_kmctr(func, ctx->key, out, in,
+					       n, ctrptr);
+			if (ret < 0 || ret != n) {
+				if (ctrptr == ctrblk)
+					spin_unlock(&ctrblk_lock);
 				return -EIO;
+			}
 			if (n > DES_BLOCK_SIZE)
-				memcpy(ctrblk, ctrblk + n - DES_BLOCK_SIZE,
+				memcpy(ctrptr, ctrptr + n - DES_BLOCK_SIZE,
 				       DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
-			crypto_inc(ctrblk, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+			crypto_inc(ctrptr, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
 			out += n;
 			in += n;
 			nbytes -= n;
 		}
 		ret = blkcipher_walk_done(desc, walk, nbytes);
 	}
-
+	if (ctrptr == ctrblk) {
+		if (nbytes)
+			memcpy(ctrbuf, ctrptr, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		else
+			memcpy(walk->iv, ctrptr, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		spin_unlock(&ctrblk_lock);
+	}
 	/* final block may be < DES_BLOCK_SIZE, copy only nbytes */
 	if (nbytes) {
 		out = walk->dst.virt.addr;
 		in = walk->src.virt.addr;
 		ret = crypt_s390_kmctr(func, ctx->key, buf, in,
-				       DES_BLOCK_SIZE, ctrblk);
+				       DES_BLOCK_SIZE, ctrbuf);
 		if (ret < 0 || ret != DES_BLOCK_SIZE)
 			return -EIO;
 		memcpy(out, buf, nbytes);
-		crypto_inc(ctrblk, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		crypto_inc(ctrbuf, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
 		ret = blkcipher_walk_done(desc, walk, 0);
+		memcpy(walk->iv, ctrbuf, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
 	}
-	memcpy(walk->iv, ctrblk, DES_BLOCK_SIZE);
 	return ret;
 }

--
1.8.3.2





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