FAILED: patch "[PATCH] crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 6f6e309328d53a10c0fe1f77dec2db73373179b6
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025122928-monotone-prodigy-ba4d@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 6f6e309328d53a10c0fe1f77dec2db73373179b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shivani Agarwal <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:01:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via
sock_kmalloc

Several crypto user API contexts and requests allocated with sock_kmalloc() were left uninitialized, relying on callers to set fields explicitly. This resulted in the use of uninitialized data in certain error paths or when new fields are added in the future.

The ACVP patches also contain two user-space interface files:
algif_kpp.c and algif_akcipher.c. These too rely on proper initialization of their context structures.

A particular issue has been observed with the newly added 'inflight' variable introduced in af_alg_ctx by commit:

67b164a871af ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests")

Because the context is not memset to zero after allocation, the inflight variable has contained garbage values. As a result, af_alg_alloc_areq() has incorrectly returned -EBUSY randomly when the garbage value was interpreted as true:

https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/master/crypto/af_alg.c#L1209

The check directly tests ctx->inflight without explicitly comparing against true/false. Since inflight is only ever set to true or false later, an uninitialized value has triggered -EBUSY failures. Zero-initializing memory allocated with sock_kmalloc() ensures inflight and other fields start in a known state, removing random issues caused by uninitialized data.

index ca6fdcc6c54a..6c271e55f44d 100644
@@ -1212,15 +1212,14 @@ struct af_alg_async_req *af_alg_alloc_areq(struct sock *sk,
 	if (unlikely(!areq))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	memset(areq, 0, areqlen);
+
 	ctx->inflight = true;
 
 	areq->areqlen = areqlen;
 	areq->sk = sk;
 	areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgt.sgl = areq->first_rsgl.sgl.sgl;
-	areq->last_rsgl = NULL;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&areq->rsgl_list);
-	areq->tsgl = NULL;
-	areq->tsgl_entries = 0;
 
 	return areq;
 }

index e3f1a4852737..4d3dfc60a16a 100644
@@ -416,9 +416,8 @@ static int hash_accept_parent_nokey(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ctx->result = NULL;
+	memset(ctx, 0, len);
 	ctx->len = len;
-	ctx->more = false;
 	crypto_init_wait(&ctx->wait);
 
 	ask->private = ctx;

index 10c41adac3b1..1a86e40c8372 100644
@@ -248,9 +248,8 @@ static int rng_accept_parent(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	memset(ctx, 0, len);
 	ctx->len = len;
-	ctx->addtl = NULL;
-	ctx->addtl_len = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * No seeding done at that point -- if multiple accepts are

From: Shivani Agarwal <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 6f6e309328d53a10c0fe1f77dec2db73373179b6 ]

Several crypto user API contexts and requests allocated with sock_kmalloc() were left uninitialized, relying on callers to set fields explicitly. This resulted in the use of uninitialized data in certain error paths or when new fields are added in the future.

The ACVP patches also contain two user-space interface files:
algif_kpp.c and algif_akcipher.c. These too rely on proper initialization of their context structures.

A particular issue has been observed with the newly added 'inflight' variable introduced in af_alg_ctx by commit:

67b164a871af ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests")

Because the context is not memset to zero after allocation, the inflight variable has contained garbage values. As a result, af_alg_alloc_areq() has incorrectly returned -EBUSY randomly when the garbage value was interpreted as true:

https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/master/crypto/af_alg.c#L1209

The check directly tests ctx->inflight without explicitly comparing against true/false. Since inflight is only ever set to true or false later, an uninitialized value has triggered -EBUSY failures. Zero-initializing memory allocated with sock_kmalloc() ensures inflight and other fields start in a known state, removing random issues caused by uninitialized data.

---
 crypto/af_alg.c     | 5 ++---
 crypto/algif_hash.c | 3 +--
 crypto/algif_rng.c  | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

index 3e333be303fe..4b7a7d9e198e 100644
@@ -1108,14 +1108,13 @@ struct af_alg_async_req *af_alg_alloc_areq(struct sock *sk,
 	if (unlikely(!areq))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	memset(areq, 0, areqlen);
+
 	ctx->inflight = true;
 
 	areq->areqlen = areqlen;
 	areq->sk = sk;
-	areq->last_rsgl = NULL;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&areq->rsgl_list);
-	areq->tsgl = NULL;
-	areq->tsgl_entries = 0;
 
 	return areq;
 }

index 84f4e9c2b5d9..45a3ef64e6ab 100644
@@ -424,9 +424,8 @@ static int hash_accept_parent_nokey(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ctx->result = NULL;
+	memset(ctx, 0, len);
 	ctx->len = len;
-	ctx->more = false;
 	crypto_init_wait(&ctx->wait);
 
 	ask->private = ctx;

index 407408c43730..38a8f20a02e2 100644
@@ -250,9 +250,8 @@ static int rng_accept_parent(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	memset(ctx, 0, len);
 	ctx->len = len;
-	ctx->addtl = NULL;
-	ctx->addtl_len = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * No seeding done at that point -- if multiple accepts are

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