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<title>crypto: vmac - separate tfm and request context</title>
<updated>2018-08-17T19:01:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2018-06-18T17:22:38Z</published>
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commit bb29648102335586e9a66289a1d98a0cb392b6e5 upstream.

syzbot reported a crash in vmac_final() when multiple threads
concurrently use the same "vmac(aes)" transform through AF_ALG.  The bug
is pretty fundamental: the VMAC template doesn't separate per-request
state from per-tfm (per-key) state like the other hash algorithms do,
but rather stores it all in the tfm context.  That's wrong.

Also, vmac_final() incorrectly zeroes most of the state including the
derived keys and cached pseudorandom pad.  Therefore, only the first
VMAC invocation with a given key calculates the correct digest.

Fix these bugs by splitting the per-tfm state from the per-request state
and using the proper init/update/final sequencing for requests.

Reproducer for the crash:

    #include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

    int main()
    {
            int fd;
            struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
                    .salg_type = "hash",
                    .salg_name = "vmac(aes)",
            };
            char buf[256] = { 0 };

            fd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
            bind(fd, (void *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
            setsockopt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, buf, 16);
            fork();
            fd = accept(fd, NULL, NULL);
            for (;;)
                    write(fd, buf, 256);
    }

The immediate cause of the crash is that vmac_ctx_t.partial_size exceeds
VMAC_NHBYTES, causing vmac_final() to memset() a negative length.

Reported-by: syzbot+264bca3a6e8d645550d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f1939f7c5645 ("crypto: vmac - New hash algorithm for intel_txt support")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.32+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: af_alg - Fix race around ctx-&gt;rcvused by making it atomic_t</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T09:24:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Cameron</name>
<email>Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-19T10:27:24Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit af955bf15d2c27496b0269b1f05c26f758c68314 ]

This variable was increased and decreased without any protection.
Result was an occasional misscount and negative wrap around resulting
in false resource allocation failures.

Fixes: 7d2c3f54e6f6 ("crypto: af_alg - remove locking in async callback")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:23:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T19:16:27Z</published>
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commit 9fa68f620041be04720d0cbfb1bd3ddfc6310b24 upstream.

Currently, almost none of the keyed hash algorithms check whether a key
has been set before proceeding.  Some algorithms are okay with this and
will effectively just use a key of all 0's or some other bogus default.
However, others will severely break, as demonstrated using
"hmac(sha3-512-generic)", the unkeyed use of which causes a kernel crash
via a (potentially exploitable) stack buffer overflow.

A while ago, this problem was solved for AF_ALG by pairing each hash
transform with a 'has_key' bool.  However, there are still other places
in the kernel where userspace can specify an arbitrary hash algorithm by
name, and the kernel uses it as unkeyed hash without checking whether it
is really unkeyed.  Examples of this include:

    - KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE, via the KDF extension
    - dm-verity
    - dm-crypt, via the ESSIV support
    - dm-integrity, via the "internal hash" mode with no key given
    - drbd (Distributed Replicated Block Device)

This bug is especially bad for KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE as that requires no
privileges to call.

Fix the bug for all users by adding a flag CRYPTO_TFM_NEED_KEY to the
-&gt;crt_flags of each hash transform that indicates whether the transform
still needs to be keyed or not.  Then, make the hash init, import, and
digest functions return -ENOKEY if the key is still needed.

The new flag also replaces the 'has_key' bool which algif_hash was
previously using, thereby simplifying the algif_hash implementation.

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: poly1305 - remove -&gt;setkey() method</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:23:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T19:16:25Z</published>
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commit a16e772e664b9a261424107784804cffc8894977 upstream.

Since Poly1305 requires a nonce per invocation, the Linux kernel
implementations of Poly1305 don't use the crypto API's keying mechanism
and instead expect the key and nonce as the first 32 bytes of the data.
But -&gt;setkey() is still defined as a stub returning an error code.  This
prevents Poly1305 from being used through AF_ALG and will also break it
completely once we start enforcing that all crypto API users (not just
AF_ALG) call -&gt;setkey() if present.

Fix it by removing crypto_poly1305_setkey(), leaving -&gt;setkey as NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: hash - introduce crypto_hash_alg_has_setkey()</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T19:22:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T19:16:22Z</published>
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commit cd6ed77ad5d223dc6299fb58f62e0f5267f7e2ba upstream.

Templates that use an shash spawn can use crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey()
to determine whether the underlying algorithm requires a key or not.
But there was no corresponding function for ahash spawns.  Add it.

Note that the new function actually has to support both shash and ahash
algorithms, since the ahash API can be used with either.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: gcm - add GCM IV size constant</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T16:38:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Corentin LABBE</name>
<email>clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-22T08:08:08Z</published>
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commit ef780324592dd639e4bfbc5b9bf8934b234b7c99 upstream.

Many GCM users use directly GCM IV size instead of using some constant.

This patch add all IV size constant used by GCM.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe &lt;clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: mcryptd - protect the per-CPU queue with a lock</title>
<updated>2017-12-29T16:53:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-30T12:39:27Z</published>
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commit 9abffc6f2efe46c3564c04312e52e07622d40e51 upstream.

mcryptd_enqueue_request() grabs the per-CPU queue struct and protects
access to it with disabled preemption. Then it schedules a worker on the
same CPU. The worker in mcryptd_queue_worker() guards access to the same
per-CPU variable with disabled preemption.

If we take CPU-hotplug into account then it is possible that between
queue_work_on() and the actual invocation of the worker the CPU goes
down and the worker will be scheduled on _another_ CPU. And here the
preempt_disable() protection does not work anymore. The easiest thing is
to add a spin_lock() to guard access to the list.

Another detail: mcryptd_queue_worker() is not processing more than
MCRYPTD_BATCH invocation in a row. If there are still items left, then
it will invoke queue_work() to proceed with more later. *I* would
suggest to simply drop that check because it does not use a system
workqueue and the workqueue is already marked as "CPU_INTENSIVE". And if
preemption is required then the scheduler should do it.
However if queue_work() is used then the work item is marked as CPU
unbound. That means it will try to run on the local CPU but it may run
on another CPU as well. Especially with CONFIG_DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU=y.
Again, the preempt_disable() won't work here but lock which was
introduced will help.
In order to keep work-item on the local CPU (and avoid RR) I changed it
to queue_work_on().

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:10:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-29T02:01:38Z</published>
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commit af3ff8045bbf3e32f1a448542e73abb4c8ceb6f1 upstream.

Because the HMAC template didn't check that its underlying hash
algorithm is unkeyed, trying to use "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))"
through AF_ALG or through KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE resulted in the inner HMAC
being used without having been keyed, resulting in sha3_update() being
called without sha3_init(), causing a stack buffer overflow.

This is a very old bug, but it seems to have only started causing real
problems when SHA-3 support was added (requires CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3)
because the innermost hash's state is -&gt;import()ed from a zeroed buffer,
and it just so happens that other hash algorithms are fine with that,
but SHA-3 is not.  However, there could be arch or hardware-dependent
hash algorithms also affected; I couldn't test everything.

Fix the bug by introducing a function crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey()
which tests whether a shash algorithm is keyed.  Then update the HMAC
template to require that its underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed.

Here is a reproducer:

    #include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;

    int main()
    {
        int algfd;
        struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
            .salg_type = "hash",
            .salg_name = "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))",
        };
        char key[4096] = { 0 };

        algfd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
        bind(algfd, (const struct sockaddr *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
        setsockopt(algfd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, key, sizeof(key));
    }

Here was the KASAN report from syzbot:

    BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in memcpy include/linux/string.h:341  [inline]
    BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0  crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
    Write of size 4096 at addr ffff8801cca07c40 by task syzkaller076574/3044

    CPU: 1 PID: 3044 Comm: syzkaller076574 Not tainted 4.14.0-mm1+ #25
    Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS  Google 01/01/2011
    Call Trace:
      __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
      dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:53
      print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252
      kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
      kasan_report+0x25b/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409
      check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
      check_memory_region+0x137/0x190 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
      memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:303
      memcpy include/linux/string.h:341 [inline]
      sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0 crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
      crypto_shash_update+0xcb/0x220 crypto/shash.c:109
      shash_finup_unaligned+0x2a/0x60 crypto/shash.c:151
      crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
      hmac_finup+0x182/0x330 crypto/hmac.c:152
      crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
      shash_digest_unaligned+0x9e/0xd0 crypto/shash.c:172
      crypto_shash_digest+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:186
      hmac_setkey+0x36a/0x690 crypto/hmac.c:66
      crypto_shash_setkey+0xad/0x190 crypto/shash.c:64
      shash_async_setkey+0x47/0x60 crypto/shash.c:207
      crypto_ahash_setkey+0xaf/0x180 crypto/ahash.c:200
      hash_setkey+0x40/0x90 crypto/algif_hash.c:446
      alg_setkey crypto/af_alg.c:221 [inline]
      alg_setsockopt+0x2a1/0x350 crypto/af_alg.c:254
      SYSC_setsockopt net/socket.c:1851 [inline]
      SyS_setsockopt+0x189/0x360 net/socket.c:1830
      entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>crypto: af_alg - remove locking in async callback</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Mueller</name>
<email>smueller@chronox.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T12:20:55Z</published>
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commit 7d2c3f54e6f646887d019faa45f35d6fe9fe82ce upstream.

The code paths protected by the socket-lock do not use or modify the
socket in a non-atomic fashion. The actions pertaining the socket do not
even need to be handled as an atomic operation. Thus, the socket-lock
can be safely ignored.

This fixes a bug regarding scheduling in atomic as the callback function
may be invoked in interrupt context.

In addition, the sock_hold is moved before the AIO encrypt/decrypt
operation to ensure that the socket is always present. This avoids a
tiny race window where the socket is unprotected and yet used by the AIO
operation.

Finally, the release of resources for a crypto operation is moved into a
common function of af_alg_free_resources.

Fixes: e870456d8e7c8 ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
Fixes: d887c52d6ae43 ("crypto: algif_aead - overhaul memory management")
Reported-by: Romain Izard &lt;romain.izard.pro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Tested-by: Romain Izard &lt;romain.izard.pro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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