On 2013-08-13 15:02:27, Kees Cook wrote:
> It might be possible for two callers to race the mutex lock after the
> NULL ctx check. Instead, move the lock above the check so there isn't
> the possibility of leaking a crypto ctx. Additionally, report the full
> algo name when failing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

Thanks, Kees!

I've pushed this to my next branch and it'll be included in a pull
request early next week.

I made one small change to this patch. See below.

> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c |   11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> index d107576..c134346 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> @@ -618,27 +618,28 @@ int ecryptfs_init_crypt_ctx(struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat 
> *crypt_stat)
>                       "key_size_bits = [%zd]\n",
>                       crypt_stat->cipher, (int)strlen(crypt_stat->cipher),
>                       crypt_stat->key_size << 3);
> +     mutex_lock(&crypt_stat->cs_tfm_mutex);
>       if (crypt_stat->tfm) {
>               rc = 0;
> -             goto out;
> +             goto out_unlock;
>       }
> -     mutex_lock(&crypt_stat->cs_tfm_mutex);
>       rc = ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_name(&full_alg_name,
>                                                   crypt_stat->cipher, "cbc");
>       if (rc)
>               goto out_unlock;
>       crypt_stat->tfm = crypto_alloc_ablkcipher(full_alg_name, 0, 0);
> -     kfree(full_alg_name);
>       if (IS_ERR(crypt_stat->tfm)) {
>               rc = PTR_ERR(crypt_stat->tfm);
>               crypt_stat->tfm = NULL;
>               ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "cryptfs: init_crypt_ctx(): "
>                               "Error initializing cipher [%s]\n",
> -                             crypt_stat->cipher);
> -             goto out_unlock;
> +                             full_alg_name);
> +             goto out_free;
>       }
>       crypto_ablkcipher_set_flags(crypt_stat->tfm, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_WEAK_KEY);
>       rc = 0;
> +out_free:
> +     kfree(full_alg_name);
>  out_unlock:
>       mutex_unlock(&crypt_stat->cs_tfm_mutex);
>  out:

The out label is no longer used. I removed it when I committed this
patch.

Tyler

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