Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2017-02-28

Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccm - move cbcmac input off the stack

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2017-02-28 09:33:13

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 03:30:56PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
Commit f15f05b0a5de ("crypto: ccm - switch to separate cbcmac driver")
refactored the CCM driver to allow separate implementations of the
underlying MAC to be provided by a platform. However, in doing so, it
moved some data from the linear region to the stack, which violates the
SG constraints when the stack is virtually mapped.

So move idata/odata back to the request ctx struct, of which we can
reasonably expect that it has been allocated using kmalloc() et al.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Fixes: f15f05b0a5de ("crypto: ccm - switch to separate cbcmac driver")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
Patch applied.  Thanks.
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