From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: Remaining crypto API regressions with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:06:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrVz4B2rthaKPJAOpiHm1kCh-mD2C5kKti0q8iBQ0QEzuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161213033928.GB5601@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:34:10AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> Here's my status.
>>
>> > drivers/crypto/bfin_crc.c:351
>> > drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c:299
>> > drivers/crypto/sahara.c:973,988
>> > drivers/crypto/talitos.c:1910
>> > drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c:325
>>
>> I have a patch to make these depend on !VMAP_STACK.
>
> Why? They're all marked as ASYNC AFAIK.
>
>> I have a patch to convert this to, drumroll please:
>>
>> priv->tx_tfm_mic = crypto_alloc_shash("michael_mic", 0,
>> CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
>>
>> Herbert, I'm at a loss as what a "shash" that's "ASYNC" even means.
>
> Having 0 as type and CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC as mask in general means
> that we're requesting a sync algorithm (i.e., ASYNC bit off).
>
> However, it is completely unnecessary for shash as they can never
> be async. So this could be changed to just ("michael_mic", 0, 0).
I'm confused by a bunch of this.
1. Is it really the case that crypto_alloc_xyz(..., CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC)
means to allocate a *synchronous* transform? That's not what I
expected.
2. What guarantees that an async request is never allocated on the
stack? If it's just convention, could an assertion be added
somewhere?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-13 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-09 23:08 Remaining crypto API regressions with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK Eric Biggers
2016-12-10 5:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-10 5:32 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-10 6:03 ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Biggers
2016-12-10 8:16 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-10 8:39 ` Eric Biggers
2016-12-10 5:37 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-10 6:30 ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Biggers
2016-12-10 14:45 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-10 17:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-10 5:55 ` Eric Biggers
2016-12-11 19:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-11 23:31 ` Eric Biggers
2016-12-12 18:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-12 18:45 ` Gary R Hook
2016-12-13 3:39 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-13 3:39 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-13 17:06 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-12-14 4:56 ` Herbert Xu
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