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sunrpc: remove incorrect HMAC request initialization

Message ID 20180328175722.193355-1-ebiggers@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Commit Message

Eric Biggers March 28, 2018, 5:57 p.m. UTC
make_checksum_hmac_md5() is allocating an HMAC transform and doing
crypto API calls in the following order:

    crypto_ahash_init()
    crypto_ahash_setkey()
    crypto_ahash_digest()

This is wrong because it makes no sense to init() the request before a
key has been set, given that the initial state depends on the key.  And
digest() is short for init() + update() + final(), so in this case
there's no need to explicitly call init() at all.

Before commit 9fa68f620041 ("crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes
without setting key") the extra init() had no real effect, at least for
the software HMAC implementation.  (There are also hardware drivers that
implement HMAC-MD5, and it's not immediately obvious how gracefully they
handle init() before setkey().)  But now the crypto API detects this
incorrect initialization and returns -ENOKEY.  This is breaking NFS
mounts in some cases.

Fix it by removing the incorrect call to crypto_ahash_init().

Reported-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Fixes: 9fa68f620041 ("crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key")
Fixes: fffdaef2eb4a ("gss_krb5: Add support for rc4-hmac encryption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

J. Bruce Fields March 28, 2018, 9:12 p.m. UTC | #1
Applying, thanks!--b.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> make_checksum_hmac_md5() is allocating an HMAC transform and doing
> crypto API calls in the following order:
> 
>     crypto_ahash_init()
>     crypto_ahash_setkey()
>     crypto_ahash_digest()
> 
> This is wrong because it makes no sense to init() the request before a
> key has been set, given that the initial state depends on the key.  And
> digest() is short for init() + update() + final(), so in this case
> there's no need to explicitly call init() at all.
> 
> Before commit 9fa68f620041 ("crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes
> without setting key") the extra init() had no real effect, at least for
> the software HMAC implementation.  (There are also hardware drivers that
> implement HMAC-MD5, and it's not immediately obvious how gracefully they
> handle init() before setkey().)  But now the crypto API detects this
> incorrect initialization and returns -ENOKEY.  This is breaking NFS
> mounts in some cases.
> 
> Fix it by removing the incorrect call to crypto_ahash_init().
> 
> Reported-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
> Fixes: 9fa68f620041 ("crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key")
> Fixes: fffdaef2eb4a ("gss_krb5: Add support for rc4-hmac encryption")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>  net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
> index 12649c9fedab..8654494b4d0a 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
> @@ -237,9 +237,6 @@ make_checksum_hmac_md5(struct krb5_ctx *kctx, char *header, int hdrlen,
>  
>  	ahash_request_set_callback(req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP, NULL, NULL);
>  
> -	err = crypto_ahash_init(req);
> -	if (err)
> -		goto out;
>  	err = crypto_ahash_setkey(hmac_md5, cksumkey, kctx->gk5e->keylength);
>  	if (err)
>  		goto out;
> -- 
> 2.17.0.rc1.321.gba9d0f2565-goog
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diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
index 12649c9fedab..8654494b4d0a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
@@ -237,9 +237,6 @@  make_checksum_hmac_md5(struct krb5_ctx *kctx, char *header, int hdrlen,
 
 	ahash_request_set_callback(req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP, NULL, NULL);
 
-	err = crypto_ahash_init(req);
-	if (err)
-		goto out;
 	err = crypto_ahash_setkey(hmac_md5, cksumkey, kctx->gk5e->keylength);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;