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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>,
	Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	"open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
	<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	qat-linux@intel.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/14] treewide: Prepare to remove VLA usage for AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:40:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713004038.lwibdesz7ohhoind@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3356dbruUfS_+fj9f+X-0jbNE8WMe5sWhJmuRY9Nvcbg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 06:02:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> Looking through some of the drivers, I found this interesting one:

As I said before these patches are fundamentally broken.  Users
of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK can only use sync algorithm providers
and therefore drivers are irrelevant.

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-11 20:36 [PATCH v4 00/14] crypto: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 01/14] crypto: xcbc: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 02/14] crypto: cbc: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 03/14] crypto: shash: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 04/14] dm integrity: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 05/14] crypto: ahash: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 06/14] dm verity fec: " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 07/14] crypto alg: Introduce generic max blocksize and alignmask Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 08/14] crypto: qat: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 09/14] crypto: shash: Remove VLA usage in unaligned hashing Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 10/14] kbuild: Introduce FRAME_WARN_BUMP_FLAG Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 11/14] treewide: Prepare to remove VLA usage for AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK Kees Cook
2018-07-12 16:02   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-12 20:17     ` Kees Cook
2018-07-12 21:38       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-13  0:40     ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2018-07-13  3:33       ` Kees Cook
2018-07-13  3:44         ` Herbert Xu
2018-07-13  5:17           ` Kees Cook
2018-07-13  5:20             ` Herbert Xu
2018-07-13  6:00               ` Kees Cook
2018-07-13 10:14                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-15  4:28                   ` Kees Cook
2018-07-17 20:59                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-18 14:50                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-18 15:19                         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-18 15:33                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-18 15:33                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-19  2:51                           ` Kees Cook
2018-07-19  2:55                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-19  3:09                               ` Kees Cook
2018-07-19  3:13                                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-19 14:54                                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-07-19 18:44                                     ` Kees Cook
2018-07-13  6:16       ` Kees Cook
2018-07-13  6:22         ` Herbert Xu
2018-07-14  3:07           ` Kees Cook
2018-07-15  2:44             ` Herbert Xu
2018-07-15  2:59               ` Kees Cook
2018-07-16  0:01                 ` Herbert Xu
2018-07-16  3:39                   ` Kees Cook
2018-07-16  7:24                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 12/14] crypto: ahash: Remove " Kees Cook
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 13/14] rxrpc: Prepare to remove VLA usage for SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK Kees Cook
2018-07-12 15:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-12 20:23     ` Kees Cook
2018-07-12 20:30       ` Kees Cook
2018-07-12 21:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-12 21:38           ` Kees Cook
2018-07-12 21:28   ` David Howells
2018-07-12 21:34     ` Kees Cook
2018-07-12 22:05   ` David Howells
2018-07-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v4 14/14] crypto: skcipher: Remove " Kees Cook

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