On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:02:23PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote:
> The wait for data is a non-atomic operation that can sleep and therefore
> potentially release the socket lock. The release of the socket lock
> allows another thread to modify the context data structure. The waiting
> operation for new data therefore must be called at the beginning of
> recvmsg. This prevents a race condition where checks of the members of
> the context data structure are performed by recvmsg while there is a
> potential for modification of these values.
>
> Fixes: e870456d8e7c ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
> Fixes: d887c52d6ae4 ("crypto: algif_aead - overhaul memory management")
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkal...@googlegroups.com>
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de>
Patch applied. Thanks.
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