On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:06:46PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 02:26:29PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > The handling of additional input data / personalization string data may
> > be subject to a NULL pointer deference for the CTR DRBG. The
> > caller-provided data may be NULL which must be caught by the DRBG.
> >
> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
Oh, huh. This bug was actually reported by me but I forgot to change
the from header and apparently my smtp server allows me to send emails
as if I work for Intel. :P
Fengguang is much nicer than I am. :P
> > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de>
> > ---
> > crypto/drbg.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/crypto/drbg.c b/crypto/drbg.c
> > index faaa2ce..8e7c302 100644
> > --- a/crypto/drbg.c
> > +++ b/crypto/drbg.c
> > @@ -513,17 +513,20 @@ static int drbg_ctr_df(struct drbg_state *drbg,
> > drbg_string_fill(&S2, L_N, sizeof(L_N));
> > drbg_string_fill(&S4, pad, padlen);
> > S1.next = &S2;
> > - S2.next = addtl;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * splice in addtl between S2 and S4 -- we place S4 at the end of the
> > - * input data chain
> > - */
> > - tempstr = addtl;
> > - for (; NULL != tempstr; tempstr = tempstr->next)
> > - if (NULL == tempstr->next)
> > - break;
> > - tempstr->next = &S4;
> > + if (NULL == addtl) {
> > + S2.next = &S4;
> > + } else {
> > + /*
> > + * splice in addtl between S2 and S4 -- we place S4 at the end
> > + * of the input data chain
> > + */
> > + S2.next = addtl;
> > + tempstr = addtl;
> > + while (tempstr->next)
> > + tempstr = tempstr->next;
> > + tempstr->next = &S4;
>
> You've still got exactly the same NULL dereference.
I was offline for a bit so I'm coming into this late. It's weird that
Stephan isn't defending his patch but it looks ok to me...
regards,
dan carpenter
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