Subject: [PATCH] Re: PROBLEM: cryptsetup fails to unlock drive in 5.8-rc6 (regression)

From: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:13:19 +0100

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 05:05:54PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After installing Linux 5.8-rc6, it seems cryptsetup can no longer
> > open LUKS volumes.  Regardless of the entered passphrase (correct
> > or otherwise), the result is a very unhelpful "Keyslot open failed."
> > message.
> > 
> > On the kernels which fail, I also noticed that the cryptsetup
> > benchmark command appears to not be able to determine that any
> > ciphers are available (output at end of message), possibly for
> > the same reason.
> > 
> > Bisected to the following commit, which suggests a problem specific
> > to compat userspace (this is amd64 kernel).  I tested both ia32 and
> > x32 userspace to confirm the problem.  Reverting this commit on top
> > of 5.8-rc6 resolves the issue.
> > 
> > Looking at strace output the failing syscall appears to be:
> > 
> >   sendmsg(8, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, 
> > 	     msg_iov=[{iov_base=..., iov_len=512}], msg_iovlen=1,
> > 	     msg_control=[{cmsg_len=16, cmsg_level=SOL_ALG,
> > 	     cmsg_type=0x3}, {cmsg_len=32, cmsg_level=SOL_ALG,
> > 	     cmsg_type=0x2}], msg_controllen=48, msg_flags=0}, 0)
> > 	     = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> Huh?  Just in case - could you verify that on the kernel with that
> commit reverted the same sendmsg() succeeds?

Oh, fuck...  Please see if the following fixes your reproducer; the braino
is, of course, that instead of fetching ucmsg->cmsg_len into ucmlen we read
the entire thing into cmsg.  Other uses of ucmlen had been replaced with
cmsg.cmsg_len; this one was missed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
---
diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c
index 5e3041a2c37d..434838bef5f8 100644
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ int cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct sock *sk,
 
 		/* Advance. */
 		kcmsg = (struct cmsghdr *)((char *)kcmsg + tmp);
-		ucmsg = cmsg_compat_nxthdr(kmsg, ucmsg, ucmlen);
+		ucmsg = cmsg_compat_nxthdr(kmsg, ucmsg, cmsg.cmsg_len);
 	}
 
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