Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 4 authors, 2016-09-28

Re: [bug] crypto/vmx/p8_ghash memory corruption in 4.8-rc7

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2016-09-28 02:45:22
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:01:03AM -0400, Jan Stancek wrote:
Also, does that mean that padlock_sha has similar problem?
It does not seem to reserve any space for fallback __ctx and it calls
init()/update()/export() with padlock_sha_desc's fallback:

struct padlock_sha_desc {
        struct shash_desc fallback;
};

static struct shash_alg sha1_alg = {
        .descsize       =       sizeof(struct padlock_sha_desc),
Actually I was wrong when I said that the API couldn't handle
a dynamic fallback.  It can and padlock-sha does the right thing
by updating descsize in the cra_init function.

So this is what vmx should do too.

Thanks,
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