[PATCH] crypto: algif_skcipher: rewind rounded output bytes

[PATCH] crypto: algif_skcipher: rewind rounded output bytes

[Daehyeon Ko]

af_alg_get_rsgl() advances the receive iterator by the unrounded RX
scatterlist length.  For a continuing skcipher request,
_skcipher_recvmsg() then rounds its local length down to a whole chunksize
without restoring the iterator.

A later chunk starts after bytes which the provider never wrote, while the
syscall returns only the processed length.  When copy_splice_read()
supplies non-zeroed pages and publishes that return as a dense prefix, the
gap exposes stale bytes from a previous page lifetime.

With unprivileged xts(aes), a 31-byte MSG_MORE request followed by one
final byte advances a 47-byte destination while returning 32 bytes.  A
hardened v7.2-rc5 image retained all 15 seeded stale bytes in 4,829 of
4,829 records.  With init_on_alloc enabled, all 72,345 gap bytes observed
were zero.

Rewind the iterator by the tail excluded during rounding, before rejecting
a zero processed length.  The crypto request uses only the rounded length;
af_alg_free_resources() releases the entire RX list before another receive
iteration.

The fixed target-like kernel returned byte-identical dense 48-byte output
in 4,771 of 4,771 rounds.  The unmodified kernel returned the vulnerable
32-byte short record in 2,409 of 2,409 rounds.

Fixes: e870456d8e7c ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
---
 crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
index 1e61fe6e24b99d..291dbd69893257 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_skcipher.c
@@ -135,12 +135,16 @@ static int _skcipher_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
 	 * full block size buffers.
 	 */
 	if (ctx->more || len < ctx->used) {
-		if (len < bs) {
+		size_t excess = len % bs;
+
+		len -= excess;
+		iov_iter_revert(&msg->msg_iter, excess);
+
+		if (!len) {
 			err = -EINVAL;
 			goto free;
 		}
 
-		len -= len % bs;
 		cflags |= CRYPTO_SKCIPHER_REQ_NOTFINAL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.55.0

Re: [PATCH] crypto: algif_skcipher: rewind rounded output bytes

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2026 at 02:09:46PM +0900, Daehyeon Ko wrote:
> af_alg_get_rsgl() advances the receive iterator by the unrounded RX
> scatterlist length.  For a continuing skcipher request,
> _skcipher_recvmsg() then rounds its local length down to a whole chunksize
> without restoring the iterator.
> 
> A later chunk starts after bytes which the provider never wrote, while the
> syscall returns only the processed length.  When copy_splice_read()
> supplies non-zeroed pages and publishes that return as a dense prefix, the
> gap exposes stale bytes from a previous page lifetime.
> 
> With unprivileged xts(aes), a 31-byte MSG_MORE request followed by one
> final byte advances a 47-byte destination while returning 32 bytes.  A
> hardened v7.2-rc5 image retained all 15 seeded stale bytes in 4,829 of
> 4,829 records.  With init_on_alloc enabled, all 72,345 gap bytes observed
> were zero.
> 
> Rewind the iterator by the tail excluded during rounding, before rejecting
> a zero processed length.  The crypto request uses only the rounded length;
> af_alg_free_resources() releases the entire RX list before another receive
> iteration.
> 
> The fixed target-like kernel returned byte-identical dense 48-byte output
> in 4,771 of 4,771 rounds.  The unmodified kernel returned the vulnerable
> 32-byte short record in 2,409 of 2,409 rounds.
> 
> Fixes: e870456d8e7c ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
> ---
>  crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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