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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Liwei Song <liwei.song@windriver.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Gary Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>, David <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccp - zero the cmd data after use it
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 14:04:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200804040420.GA10850@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ae939b-4983-4e96-cc3d-1aa1d1b3d3ae@windriver.com>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:51:47AM +0800, Liwei Song wrote:
> 
> On 8/3/20 20:52, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 03:58:58PM +0800, Liwei Song wrote:
> >> exist the following assignment in ccp(ignore the force
> >> convert of the struct) by list_del in ccp_dequeue_cmd():
> >> req->__ctx->cmd->entry->next = LIST_POISON1;
> >>
> >> after use the req, kzfree(req) can not zero the entry
> >> entry->next = LIST_POISON1 of the ccp_cmd(cmd) struct
> >> when this address available as slub freelist pointer, this will cause
> >> the following "general protection fault" error if some process meet
> >> this LIST_POISON1 value address when request memory:
> > 
> > Your description makes no sense.  Please rewrite it and explain
> > the problem properly.
> 
> The problem here is that the entry of struct ccp_cmd is not zeroed after we use it,
> If the other process got this address by kmalloc(), this illegal value "LIST_POISON1"
> will cause "general protection fault" error.

If that's the case surely the other process should be zeroing
the memory? Your explanation still makes no sense.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03  7:58 [PATCH] crypto: ccp - zero the cmd data after use it Liwei Song
2020-08-03 12:52 ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-04  3:51   ` Liwei Song
2020-08-04  4:04     ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2020-08-04  4:20       ` Liwei Song
2020-08-04  4:22         ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-04  4:43           ` Liwei Song

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