Check at use-time whether an skcipher request is on the stack. If it
is, enforce that it must be backed by a synchronous algorithm, as is
required:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2018-January/msg00087.html

Co-developed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
 include/crypto/skcipher.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/crypto/skcipher.h b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
index 6e954d398e0f..3aabd5d098ed 100644
--- a/include/crypto/skcipher.h
+++ b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 /**
  *     struct skcipher_request - Symmetric key cipher request
+ *     @__onstack: 1 if the request was allocated by SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK
  *     @cryptlen: Number of bytes to encrypt or decrypt
  *     @iv: Initialisation Vector
  *     @src: Source SG list
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
  *     @__ctx: Start of private context data
  */
 struct skcipher_request {
+       unsigned char __onstack;
        unsigned int cryptlen;
 
        u8 *iv;
@@ -139,9 +141,12 @@ struct skcipher_alg {
        struct crypto_alg base;
 };
 
+/*
+ * This must only ever be used with synchronous algorithms.
+ */
 #define SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK(name, tfm) \
        char __##name##_desc[sizeof(struct skcipher_request) + \
-               crypto_skcipher_reqsize(tfm)] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR; \
+               crypto_skcipher_reqsize(tfm)] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR = { 1 }; \
        struct skcipher_request *name = (void *)__##name##_desc
 
 /**
@@ -437,6 +442,12 @@ static inline struct crypto_skcipher 
*crypto_skcipher_reqtfm_check(
 {
        struct crypto_skcipher *tfm = crypto_skcipher_reqtfm(req);
 
+       if (req->__onstack) {
+               if (WARN_ON(crypto_skcipher_alg(tfm)->base.cra_flags &
+                               CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC))
+                       return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+       }
+
        if (crypto_skcipher_get_flags(tfm) & CRYPTO_TFM_NEED_KEY)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOKEY);
 
-- 
2.17.1

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