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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
	ebiggers@google.com, ardb@kernel.org, sivaprak@codeaurora.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] drivers: crypto: qce: sha: Restore/save sha1_state/sha256_state with qce_sha_reqctx in export/import
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 08:25:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210102212501.GA1931@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201219033027.3066042-2-thara.gopinath@linaro.org>

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:30:22PM -0500, Thara Gopinath wrote:
> Export and import interfaces save and restore partial transformation
> states. The partial states were being stored and restored in struct
> sha1_state for sha1/hmac(sha1) transformations and sha256_state for
> sha256/hmac(sha256) transformations.This led to a bunch of corner cases
> where improper state was being stored and restored. A few of the corner
> cases that turned up during testing are:
> 
> - wrong byte_count restored if export/import is called twice without h/w
> transaction in between
> - wrong buflen restored back if the pending buffer
> length is exactly the block size.
> - wrong state restored if buffer length is 0.
> 
> To fix these issues, save and restore the entire qce_sha_rctx structure
> instead of parts of it in sha1_state and sha256_state structures.
> This in turn simplifies the export and import apis.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 93 ++++------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)

How is this safe when the reqctx structure contains pointers?

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-02 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-19  3:30 [PATCH 0/6] Regression fixes/clean ups in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 1/6] drivers: crypto: qce: sha: Restore/save sha1_state/sha256_state with qce_sha_reqctx in export/import Thara Gopinath
2021-01-02 21:25   ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2021-01-08 15:50     ` Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 2/6] drivers: crypto: qce: sha: Hold back a block of data to be transferred as part of final Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 3/6] drivers: crypto: qce: skcipher: Fix regressions found during fuzz testing Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 4/6] drivers: crypto: qce: common: Set data unit size to message length for AES XTS transformation Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 5/6] drivers: crypto: qce: Remover src_tbl from qce_cipher_reqctx Thara Gopinath
2020-12-19  3:30 ` [PATCH 6/6] drivers: crypto: qce: Remove totallen and offset in qce_start Thara Gopinath

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