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Message-ID: <20161210053208.GA27951@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:32:08 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Subject: Re: Remaining crypto API regressions with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:25:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> > The following crypto drivers initialize a scatterlist to point into an
> > ablkcipher_request, which may have been allocated on the stack with
> > SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK():
> >
> > drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-aes-xts.c:162
> > drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-aes.c:94
>
> These are real, and I wish I'd known about them sooner.
Are you sure? Any instance of *_ON_STACK must only be used with
sync algorithms and most drivers under drivers/crypto declare
themselves as async.
Cheers,
--
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