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authorMatthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>2018-06-08 14:57:42 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-26 08:36:37 +0200
commiteddbab1384841db30b270bc791ad623ad0cd5a38 (patch)
tree45316853ff7c76f3cc9958dc9c865f566e3a9515 /security
parent23bd97eaebc55d5eef9d3cd41e3bd6189a0e9dd6 (diff)
evm: Don't deadlock if a crypto algorithm is unavailable
[ Upstream commit e2861fa71641c6414831d628a1f4f793b6562580 ] When EVM attempts to appraise a file signed with a crypto algorithm the kernel doesn't have support for, it will cause the kernel to trigger a module load. If the EVM policy includes appraisal of kernel modules this will in turn call back into EVM - since EVM is holding a lock until the crypto initialisation is complete, this triggers a deadlock. Add a CRYPTO_NOLOAD flag and skip module loading if it's set, and add that flag in the EVM case in order to fail gracefully with an error message instead of deadlocking. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
index bf663915412e..6fcbd8e99baf 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ static struct shash_desc *init_desc(char type)
mutex_lock(&mutex);
if (*tfm)
goto out;
- *tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(algo, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
+ *tfm = crypto_alloc_shash(algo, 0,
+ CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_NOLOAD);
if (IS_ERR(*tfm)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(*tfm);
pr_err("Can not allocate %s (reason: %ld)\n", algo, rc);