Am Freitag, 5. Juni 2020, 02:43:36 CEST schrieb Eric Biggers:
Hi Eric,
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 08:41:00AM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> > The Jitter RNG is unconditionally allocated as a seed source follwoing
> > the patch 97f2650e5040. Thus, the instance must always be deallocated.
> >
> > Reported-by: syzbot+2e635807decef724a...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Fixes: 97f2650e5040 ("crypto: drbg - always seeded with SP800-90B ...")
> > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de>
> > ---
> >
> > crypto/drbg.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/crypto/drbg.c b/crypto/drbg.c
> > index 37526eb8c5d5..8a0f16950144 100644
> > --- a/crypto/drbg.c
> > +++ b/crypto/drbg.c
> > @@ -1631,6 +1631,9 @@ static int drbg_uninstantiate(struct drbg_state
> > *drbg)>
> > if (drbg->random_ready.func) {
> >
> > del_random_ready_callback(&drbg->random_ready);
> > cancel_work_sync(&drbg->seed_work);
> >
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(drbg->jent)) {
> >
> > crypto_free_rng(drbg->jent);
> > drbg->jent = NULL;
> >
> > }
>
> It it okay that ->jent can be left as an ERR_PTR() value?
>
> Perhaps it should always be set to NULL?
The error value is used in the drbg_instantiate function. There it is checked
whether -ENOENT (i.e. the cipher is not available) or any other error is
present. I am not sure we should move that check.
Thanks for the review.
>
> - Eric
Ciao
Stephan
