This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x.509-fix-comparisons-of-pkey_algo.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 54c1fb39fe0495f846539ab765925b008f86801c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:13:29 +0000 Subject: X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo

From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com

commit 54c1fb39fe0495f846539ab765925b008f86801c upstream.

->pkey_algo used to be an enum, but was changed to a string by commit 4e8ae72a75aa ("X.509: Make algo identifiers text instead of enum"). But two comparisons were not updated. Fix them to use strcmp().

This bug broke signature verification in certain configurations, depending on whether the string constants were deduplicated or not.

Fixes: 4e8ae72a75aa ("X.509: Make algo identifiers text instead of enum") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_verify.c | 2 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_verify.c +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_verify.c @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int pkcs7_find_key(struct pkcs7_m pr_devel("Sig %u: Found cert serial match X.509[%u]\n", sinfo->index, certix);

- if (x509->pub->pkey_algo != sinfo->sig->pkey_algo) { + if (strcmp(x509->pub->pkey_algo, sinfo->sig->pkey_algo) != 0) { pr_warn("Sig %u: X.509 algo and PKCS#7 sig algo don't match\n", sinfo->index); continue; --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int x509_check_for_self_signed(struct x5 }

ret = -EKEYREJECTED; - if (cert->pub->pkey_algo != cert->sig->pkey_algo) + if (strcmp(cert->pub->pkey_algo, cert->sig->pkey_algo) != 0) goto out;

ret = public_key_verify_signature(cert->pub, cert->sig);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@google.com are

queue-4.9/x.509-reject-invalid-bit-string-for-subjectpublickey.patch queue-4.9/asn.1-check-for-error-from-asn1_op_end__act-actions.patch queue-4.9/keys-add-missing-permission-check-for-request_key-destination.patch queue-4.9/asn.1-fix-out-of-bounds-read-when-parsing-indefinite-length-item.patch queue-4.9/x.509-fix-comparisons-of-pkey_algo.patch