Patch "rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri May 1 05:06:33 PDT 2026


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling

to the 6.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rxrpc-fix-rxkad-crypto-unalignment-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From def304aae2edf321d2671fd6ca766a93c21f877e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:14:31 +0100
Subject: rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling

From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

commit def304aae2edf321d2671fd6ca766a93c21f877e upstream.

Fix handling of a packet with a misaligned crypto length.  Also handle
non-ENOMEM errors from decryption by aborting.  Further, remove the
WARN_ON_ONCE() so that it can't be remotely triggered (a trace line can
still be emitted).

Fixes: f93af41b9f5f ("rxrpc: Fix missing error checks for rxkad encryption/decryption failure")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/trace/events/rxrpc.h |    1 +
 net/rxrpc/rxkad.c            |    9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/rxrpc.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 	EM(rxkad_abort_1_short_encdata,		"rxkad1-short-encdata")	\
 	EM(rxkad_abort_1_short_header,		"rxkad1-short-hdr")	\
 	EM(rxkad_abort_2_short_check,		"rxkad2-short-check")	\
+	EM(rxkad_abort_2_crypto_unaligned,	"rxkad2-crypto-unaligned") \
 	EM(rxkad_abort_2_short_data,		"rxkad2-short-data")	\
 	EM(rxkad_abort_2_short_header,		"rxkad2-short-hdr")	\
 	EM(rxkad_abort_2_short_len,		"rxkad2-short-len")	\
--- a/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/rxkad.c
@@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ static int rxkad_verify_packet_2(struct
 		return rxrpc_abort_eproto(call, skb, RXKADSEALEDINCON,
 					  rxkad_abort_2_short_header);
 
+	/* Don't let the crypto algo see a misaligned length. */
+	sp->len = round_down(sp->len, 8);
+
 	/* Decrypt the skbuff in-place.  TODO: We really want to decrypt
 	 * directly into the target buffer.
 	 */
@@ -543,8 +546,10 @@ static int rxkad_verify_packet_2(struct
 	if (sg != _sg)
 		kfree(sg);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOMEM);
-		return ret;
+		if (ret == -ENOMEM)
+			return ret;
+		return rxrpc_abort_eproto(call, skb, RXKADSEALEDINCON,
+					  rxkad_abort_2_crypto_unaligned);
 	}
 
 	/* Extract the decrypted packet length */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells at redhat.com are

queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-re-decryption-of-response-packets.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_input_call_event-to-only-unshare-data-packets.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-rxkad-crypto-unalignment-handling.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-memory-leaks-in-rxkad_verify_response.patch
queue-6.18/fs-afs-revert-mmap_prepare-change.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-potential-uaf-after-skb_unshare-failure.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-conn-level-packet-handling-to-unshare-response-packets.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-error-handling-in-rxgk_extract_token.patch



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