From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:19:47 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()
X-Git-Tag: v7.1-rc1~57^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c2f1288250a90a4b5cabed5d888d7e3aeed4035;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()

Yiming reports an integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() when
subtracting "lzeros" from the unsigned "nbytes".

For this to happen, the scatterlist "sgl" needs to occupy more bytes
than the "nbytes" parameter and the first "nbytes + 1" bytes of the
scatterlist must be zero.  Under these conditions, the while loop
iterating over the scatterlist will count more zeroes than "nbytes",
subtract the number of zeroes from "nbytes" and cause the underflow.

When commit 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers") originally
introduced the bug, it couldn't be triggered because all callers of
mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() passed a scatterlist whose length was equal to
"nbytes".

However since commit 63ba4d67594a ("KEYS: asymmetric: Use new crypto
interface without scatterlists"), the underflow can now actually be
triggered.  When invoking a KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT system call with a
larger "out_len" than "in_len" and filling the "in" buffer with zeroes,
crypto_akcipher_sync_prep() will create an all-zero scatterlist used for
both the "src" and "dst" member of struct akcipher_request and thereby
fulfil the conditions to trigger the bug:

  sys_keyctl()
    keyctl_pkey_e_d_s()
      asymmetric_key_eds_op()
        software_key_eds_op()
          crypto_akcipher_sync_encrypt()
            crypto_akcipher_sync_prep()
              crypto_akcipher_encrypt()
                rsa_enc()
                  mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()

To the user this will be visible as a DoS as the kernel spins forever,
causing soft lockup splats as a side effect.

Fix it.

Reported-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@gmail.com> # off-list
Fixes: 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Reviewed-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/59eca92ff4f87e2081777f1423a0efaaadcfdb39.1776003111.git.lukas@wunner.de
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/lib/crypto/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/crypto/mpi/mpicoder.c
index bf716a03c7045..9359a58c29ec0 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/mpi/mpicoder.c
+++ b/lib/crypto/mpi/mpicoder.c
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ MPI mpi_read_raw_from_sgl(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nbytes)
 	lzeros = 0;
 	len = 0;
 	while (nbytes > 0) {
-		while (len && !*buff) {
+		while (len && !*buff && lzeros < nbytes) {
 			lzeros++;
 			len--;
 			buff++;