Re: Crypto causes panic in scatterwalk_done with large/multiple buffers

Appearently this patch only fixed my debug printk loop that used sg_next
from scatterlist API instead of scatterwalk_sg_next from scatterwalk API.
Sorry for the noise.

Thanks for looking at this. I think I am dealing with 2 problems, one is
that occasionally my buffers are from vmalloc, and needs to have some logic
using vmalloc_to_page().  But I don't know if ciphers should handle that
internally, blkcipher.c certainly seems to have several modes, although I
do not see how to *set* them.

Second problem is most likely what you were looking at. It is quite easy to
make the crypto code die.

For example, if I use "ccm(aes)" which can take the dst buffer, plus a hmac
buffer;

  cipher = kmalloc( ciphersize, ...
  hmac = kmalloc( 16, ...
  sg_set_buf( &sg[0], cipher, ciphersize);
  sg_set_buf( &sg[1], hmac, 16);
  aead_encrypt()...

and all is well, but if you shift hmac address away from PAGE boundary, like:

  hmac = kmalloc( 16 + 32, ...
  hmac += 32;
  sg_set_buf( &sg[1], hmac, 16);

ie, allocate a larger buffer, and put the pointer into the page a bit. And
it will die in scatterwalk very often. +32 isnt magical, any non-zero
number works.

Lund



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