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crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
syzkaller triggered a NULL pointer dereference in crypto_remove_spawns() via a program that repeatedly and concurrently requests AEADs "authenc(cmac(des3_ede-asm),pcbc-aes-aesni)" and hashes "cmac(des3_ede)" through AF_ALG, where the hashes are requested as "untested" (CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED is set in ->salg_mask but clear in ->salg_feat; this causes the template to be instantiated for every request). Although AF_ALG users really shouldn't be able to request an "untested" algorithm, the NULL pointer dereference is actually caused by a longstanding race condition where crypto_remove_spawns() can encounter an instance which has had spawn(s) "grabbed" but hasn't yet been registered, resulting in ->cra_users still being NULL. We probably should properly initialize ->cra_users earlier, but that would require updating many templates individually. For now just fix the bug in a simple way that can easily be backported: make crypto_remove_spawns() treat a NULL ->cra_users list as empty. Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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