linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length

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Date:   Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:37:58 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length

Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:

> Commit 383203eff718 ("dh key: get rid of stack allocated array") changed
> kdf_ctr() to assume that the length of key material to derive is a
> multiple of the digest size.  The length was supposed to be rounded up
> accordingly.  However, the round_up() macro was used which only gives
> the correct result on power-of-2 arguments, whereas not all hash
> algorithms have power-of-2 digest sizes.  In some cases this resulted in
> a write past the end of the 'outbuf' buffer.
> 
> Fix it by switching to roundup(), which works for non-power-of-2 inputs.

Applied.