[PATCH 1/3] crypto: Fix the pointer voodoo in unaligned ahash

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jan 14 12:33:47 EST 2014


Add documentation for the pointer voodoo that is happening in crypto/ahash.c
in ahash_op_unaligned(). This code is quite confusing, so add a beefy chunk
of documentation.

Moreover, make sure the mangled request is completely restored after finishing
this unaligned operation. This means restoring all of .result, .priv, .base.data
and .base.complete .

Also, remove the crypto_completion_t complete = ... line present in the
ahash_op_unaligned_done() function. This type actually declares a function
pointer, which is very confusing.

Finally, yet very important nonetheless, make sure the req->priv is free()'d
only after the original request is restored in ahash_op_unaligned_done().
The req->priv data must not be free()'d before that in ahash_op_unaligned_finish(),
since we would be accessing previously free()'d data in ahash_op_unaligned_done()
and cause corruption.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
---
 crypto/ahash.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/ahash.c b/crypto/ahash.c
index a92dc38..5ca8ede 100644
--- a/crypto/ahash.c
+++ b/crypto/ahash.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 struct ahash_request_priv {
 	crypto_completion_t complete;
 	void *data;
+	void *priv;
 	u8 *result;
 	void *ubuf[] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
 };
@@ -200,23 +201,38 @@ static void ahash_op_unaligned_finish(struct ahash_request *req, int err)
 	if (!err)
 		memcpy(priv->result, req->result,
 		       crypto_ahash_digestsize(crypto_ahash_reqtfm(req)));
-
-	kzfree(priv);
 }
 
-static void ahash_op_unaligned_done(struct crypto_async_request *req, int err)
+static void ahash_op_unaligned_done(struct crypto_async_request *areq, int err)
 {
-	struct ahash_request *areq = req->data;
-	struct ahash_request_priv *priv = areq->priv;
-	crypto_completion_t complete = priv->complete;
-	void *data = priv->data;
+	struct ahash_request *req = areq->data;
+	struct ahash_request_priv *priv = req->priv;
+	struct crypto_async_request *data;
+
+	/*
+	 * Restore the original request, see ahash_op_unaligned() for what
+	 * goes where.
+	 *
+	 * The "struct ahash_request *req" here is in fact the "req.base"
+	 * from the ADJUSTED request from ahash_op_unaligned(), thus as it
+	 * is a pointer to self, it is also the ADJUSTED "req" .
+	 */
+
+	/* First copy req->result into req->priv.result */
+	ahash_op_unaligned_finish(req, err);
 
-	ahash_op_unaligned_finish(areq, err);
+	/* Restore the original crypto request. */
+	req->result = priv->result;
+	req->base.complete = priv->complete;
+	req->base.data = priv->data;
+	req->priv = priv->priv;
 
-	areq->base.complete = complete;
-	areq->base.data = data;
+	/* Free the req->priv.priv from the ADJUSTED request. */
+	kzfree(priv);
 
-	complete(&areq->base, err);
+	/* Complete the ORIGINAL request. */
+	data = req->base.data;
+	req->base.complete(data, err);
 }
 
 static int ahash_op_unaligned(struct ahash_request *req,
@@ -234,9 +250,36 @@ static int ahash_op_unaligned(struct ahash_request *req,
 	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	/*
+	 * WARNING: Voodoo programming below!
+	 *
+	 * The code below is obscure and hard to understand, thus explanation
+	 * is necessary. See include/crypto/hash.h and include/linux/crypto.h
+	 * to understand the layout of structures used here!
+	 *
+	 * The code here will replace portions of the ORIGINAL request with
+	 * pointers to new code and buffers so the hashing operation can store
+	 * the result in aligned buffer. We will call the modified request
+	 * an ADJUSTED request.
+	 *
+	 * The newly mangled request will look as such:
+	 *
+	 * req {
+	 *   .result        = ADJUSTED[new aligned buffer]
+	 *   .base.complete = ADJUSTED[pointer to completion function]
+	 *   .base.data     = ADJUSTED[*req (pointer to self)]
+	 *   .priv          = ADJUSTED[new priv] {
+	 *           .result   = ORIGINAL(result)
+	 *           .complete = ORIGINAL(base.complete)
+	 *           .data     = ORIGINAL(base.data)
+	 *           .priv     = ORIGINAL(priv)
+	 *   }
+	 */
+
 	priv->result = req->result;
 	priv->complete = req->base.complete;
 	priv->data = req->base.data;
+	priv->priv = req->priv;
 
 	req->result = PTR_ALIGN((u8 *)priv->ubuf, alignmask + 1);
 	req->base.complete = ahash_op_unaligned_done;
-- 
1.8.5.2




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