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

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        rui y wang <rui.y.wang@...el.com>,
        mhcerri@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, leosilva@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        pfsmorigo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] crypto/vmx/p8_ghash memory corruption in 4.8-rc7





----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> To: "Marcelo Cerri" <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>
> Cc: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@...hat.com>, "rui y wang" <rui.y.wang@...el.com>, mhcerri@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
> leosilva@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, pfsmorigo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
> linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 5:08:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [bug] crypto/vmx/p8_ghash memory corruption in 4.8-rc7
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:43:17PM -0300, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't be enough to provide a pair of import/export functions as the
> > padlock-sha driver does?
> 
> I don't think that will help as ultimately you need to call the
> export function on the fallback and that's what requires the extra
> memory.  In fact very operation involving the fallback will need
> that extra memory too.

So, if we extended p8_ghash_desc_ctx to accommodate fallback_desc's ctx
and then provided statesize/import/export, would that be acceptable?

struct p8_ghash_desc_ctx {
        ...
        struct shash_desc fallback_desc;
+       char fallback_ctx[sizeof(struct ghash_desc_ctx)];


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),

Regards,
Jan

> 
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