On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:23:57PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 12:17 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
> > 
> > Since v4.9, the crypto API cannot (normally) be used to encrypt/decrypt
> > stack buffers because the stack may be virtually mapped.  Fix this for
> > the padding buffers in encrypted-keys by using ZERO_PAGE for the
> > encryption padding and by allocating a temporary heap buffer for the
> > decryption padding.
> > 
> > Tested with CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y:
> >     keyctl new_session
> >     keyctl add user master "abcdefghijklmnop" @s
> >     keyid=$(keyctl add encrypted desc "new user:master 25" @s)
> >     datablob="$(keyctl pipe $keyid)"
> >     keyctl unlink $keyid
> >     keyid=$(keyctl add encrypted desc "load $datablob" @s)
> >     datablob2="$(keyctl pipe $keyid)"
> >     [ "$datablob" = "$datablob2" ] && echo "Success!"
> 
> Have you created an encrypted key on a kernel without this patch and
> attempted to load that key on a kernel with this patch?  Does it still
> work?
> 

Yes, a key exported from an unpatched kernel (with DEBUG_SG and DEBUG_VIRTUAL
turned off so it doesn't crash) can be loaded on a patched kernel, then exported
again.  The exported data is identical.

Eric

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