[PATCH] crypto: sa2ul - Fix stack overflow in sa_prepare_iopads

Siddharth Vadapalli s-vadapalli at ti.com
Wed Aug 19 07:23:55 PDT 2026


Using sa2ul for IPSec results in the following KASAN report:
  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __crypto_sha256_export.isra.0+0x1ac/0x1c4
  Write of size 1 at addr ffff80008df96b08 by task charon-systemd/577
  [...]
  Call trace:
   [...]
   __crypto_sha256_export.isra.0+0x1ac/0x1c4
   crypto_sha256_export+0x14/0x24
   crypto_shash_export+0xe8/0x2e0
   sa_export_shash+0x40/0x110 [sa2ul]
   sa_prepare_iopads+0x264/0x4cc [sa2ul]
   sa_init_sc+0x838/0xa78 [sa2ul]
   sa_aead_setkey.constprop.0+0x3a8/0x6e8 [sa2ul]
   sa_aead_cbc_sha256_setkey+0xac/0xec [sa2ul]
   crypto_aead_setkey+0xa8/0x22c
   aead_geniv_setkey+0x34/0x60
   crypto_aead_setkey+0xa8/0x22c
   esp_init_authenc.constprop.0+0x4c0/0x810
   esp_init_state+0x27c/0x3e0
   [...]
  The buggy address belongs to stack of task charon-systemd/577
   and is located at offset 152 in frame:
   sa_prepare_iopads+0x0/0x4cc [sa2ul]
  This frame has 2 objects:
   [48, 152) 'sha'
   [192, 569) '__shash_desc'

Commit 3bf533787910 ("crypto: sha256 - Use the partial block API") added a
real ".export" function to the arch sha256 shash algorithm, changing its
export format to write "sizeof(struct __sha256_ctx) + 1" (105 bytes).

On the other hand, sa_prepare_iopads() passes a stack-allocated union as
the export destination buffer:
  union {
          struct sha1_state sha1;     /* 92 bytes */
	  struct sha256_state sha256; /* 104 bytes */
	  u8 k_pad[SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE];  /* 64 bytes */
  } sha;                              /* 104 bytes total */
with the size of the union being 104 bytes.

Since crypto_shash_export() writes 105 bytes into this 104-byte union, it
overflows by one byte into the adjacent stack frame.

Hence, fix this by replacing the fixed-size stack union with a heap
allocation of crypto_shash_statesize() bytes. Since the contents of the
allocated heap are written-to before they are read, a kmalloc() is safe.

Fixes: 3bf533787910 ("crypto: sha256 - Use the partial block API")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli at ti.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/sa2ul.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/sa2ul.c b/drivers/crypto/sa2ul.c
index 965a03d5b27a..984b341755ec 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/sa2ul.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/sa2ul.c
@@ -438,28 +438,28 @@ static void sa_prepare_iopads(struct algo_data *data, const u8 *key,
 	SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(shash, data->ctx->shash);
 	int block_size = crypto_shash_blocksize(data->ctx->shash);
 	int digest_size = crypto_shash_digestsize(data->ctx->shash);
-	union {
-		struct sha1_state sha1;
-		struct sha256_state sha256;
-		u8 k_pad[SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE];
-	} sha;
+	int state_size = crypto_shash_statesize(data->ctx->shash);
+	u8 *sha;
+
+	sha = kmalloc(state_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!sha)
+		return;
 
 	shash->tfm = data->ctx->shash;
 
-	prepare_kipad(sha.k_pad, key, key_sz);
+	prepare_kipad(sha, key, key_sz);
 
 	crypto_shash_init(shash);
-	crypto_shash_update(shash, sha.k_pad, block_size);
-	sa_export_shash(&sha, shash, digest_size, ipad);
+	crypto_shash_update(shash, sha, block_size);
+	sa_export_shash(sha, shash, digest_size, ipad);
 
-	prepare_kopad(sha.k_pad, key, key_sz);
+	prepare_kopad(sha, key, key_sz);
 
 	crypto_shash_init(shash);
-	crypto_shash_update(shash, sha.k_pad, block_size);
-
-	sa_export_shash(&sha, shash, digest_size, opad);
+	crypto_shash_update(shash, sha, block_size);
+	sa_export_shash(sha, shash, digest_size, opad);
 
-	memzero_explicit(&sha, sizeof(sha));
+	kfree_sensitive(sha);
 }
 
 /* Derive the inverse key used in AES-CBC decryption operation */
-- 
2.51.1




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