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    crypto: skcipher - set walk.iv for zero-length inputs · 2b4f27c3
    Eric Biggers authored
    All the ChaCha20 algorithms as well as the ARM bit-sliced AES-XTS
    algorithms call skcipher_walk_virt(), then access the IV (walk.iv)
    before checking whether any bytes need to be processed (walk.nbytes).
    
    But if the input is empty, then skcipher_walk_virt() doesn't set the IV,
    and the algorithms crash trying to use the uninitialized IV pointer.
    
    Fix it by setting the IV earlier in skcipher_walk_virt().  Also fix it
    for the AEAD walk functions.
    
    This isn't a perfect solution because we can't actually align the IV to
    ->cra_alignmask unless there are bytes to process, for one because the
    temporary buffer for the aligned IV is freed by skcipher_walk_done(),
    which is only called when there are bytes to process.  Thus, algorithms
    that require aligned IVs will still need to avoid accessing the IV when
    walk.nbytes == 0.  Still, many algorithms/architectures are fine with
    IVs having any alignment, and even for those that aren't, a misaligned
    pointer bug is much less severe than an uninitialized pointer bug.
    
    This change also matches the behavior of the older blkcipher_walk API.
    
    Fixes: 0cabf2af
    
     ("crypto: skcipher - Fix crash on zero-length input")
    Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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