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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:59:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls

sk->sk_err appears to expect a positive value, a convention that ktls doesn't always follow and that leads to memory corruption in other code. For instance,

    [kworker]
    tls_encrypt_done(..., err=<negative error from crypto request>)
      tls_err_abort(.., err)
        sk->sk_err = err;

    [task]
    splice_from_pipe_feed
      ...
        tls_sw_do_sendpage
          if (sk->sk_err) {
            ret = -sk->sk_err;  // ret is positive

    splice_from_pipe_feed (continued)
      ret = actor(...)  // ret is still positive and interpreted as bytes
                        // written, resulting in underflow of buf->len and
                        // sd->len, leading to huge buf->offset and bogus
                        // addresses computed in later calls to actor()

Fix all tls_err_abort() callers to pass a negative error code consistently and centralize the error-prone sign flip there, throwing in a warning to catch future misuse and uninlining the function so it really does only warn once.

Cc [email protected]
Fixes c46234ebb4d1e ("tls: RX path for ktls")
Reported-by [email protected]
Signed-off-by Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by David S. Miller <[email protected]>
include/net/tls.h +2 -7
index 01d2e3744393..1fffb206f09f 100644
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ int tls_sk_query(struct sock *sk, int optname, char __user *optval,
 		int __user *optlen);
 int tls_sk_attach(struct sock *sk, int optname, char __user *optval,
 		  unsigned int optlen);
+void tls_err_abort(struct sock *sk, int err);
 
 int tls_set_sw_offload(struct sock *sk, struct tls_context *ctx, int tx);
 void tls_sw_strparser_arm(struct sock *sk, struct tls_context *ctx);

@@ -466,12 +467,6 @@ static inline bool tls_is_sk_tx_device_offloaded(struct sock *sk)
 #endif
 }
 
-static inline void tls_err_abort(struct sock *sk, int err)
-{
-	sk->sk_err = err;
-	sk_error_report(sk);
-}
-
 static inline bool tls_bigint_increment(unsigned char *seq, int len)
 {
 	int i;

@@ -512,7 +507,7 @@ static inline void tls_advance_record_sn(struct sock *sk,
 					 struct cipher_context *ctx)
 {
 	if (tls_bigint_increment(ctx->rec_seq, prot->rec_seq_size))
-		tls_err_abort(sk, EBADMSG);
+		tls_err_abort(sk, -EBADMSG);
 
 	if (prot->version != TLS_1_3_VERSION &&
 	    prot->cipher_type != TLS_CIPHER_CHACHA20_POLY1305)
net/tls/tls_sw.c +13 -4
index d5d09bd817b7..1644f8baea19 100644
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
  * SOFTWARE.
  */
 
+#include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/splice.h>

@@ -43,6 +44,14 @@
 #include <net/strparser.h>
 #include <net/tls.h>
 
+noinline void tls_err_abort(struct sock *sk, int err)
+{
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(err >= 0);
+	/* sk->sk_err should contain a positive error code. */
+	sk->sk_err = -err;
+	sk_error_report(sk);
+}
+
 static int __skb_nsg(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len,
                      unsigned int recursion_level)
 {

@@ -419,7 +428,7 @@ int tls_tx_records(struct sock *sk, int flags)
 
 tx_err:
 	if (rc < 0 && rc != -EAGAIN)
-		tls_err_abort(sk, EBADMSG);
+		tls_err_abort(sk, -EBADMSG);
 
 	return rc;
 }

@@ -763,7 +772,7 @@ static int tls_push_record(struct sock *sk, int flags,
 			       msg_pl->sg.size + prot->tail_size, i);
 	if (rc < 0) {
 		if (rc != -EINPROGRESS) {
-			tls_err_abort(sk, EBADMSG);
+			tls_err_abort(sk, -EBADMSG);
 			if (split) {
 				tls_ctx->pending_open_record_frags = true;
 				tls_merge_open_record(sk, rec, tmp, orig_end);

@@ -1827,7 +1836,7 @@ int tls_sw_recvmsg(struct sock *sk,
 		err = decrypt_skb_update(sk, skb, &msg->msg_iter,
 					 &chunk, &zc, async_capable);
 		if (err < 0 && err != -EINPROGRESS) {
-			tls_err_abort(sk, EBADMSG);
+			tls_err_abort(sk, -EBADMSG);
 			goto recv_end;
 		}
 

@@ -2007,7 +2016,7 @@ ssize_t tls_sw_splice_read(struct socket *sock,  loff_t *ppos,
 		}
 
 		if (err < 0) {
-			tls_err_abort(sk, EBADMSG);
+			tls_err_abort(sk, -EBADMSG);
 			goto splice_read_end;
 		}
 		ctx->decrypted = 1;