linux-kernel - Re: on stack dynamic allocations

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:30:57 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
To:	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
CC:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: on stack dynamic allocations

On 08/16/2012 02:20 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some places in the code uses variable-size allocation on stack..
> For example from hmac_setkey():
>
> 	struct {
> 		struct shash_desc shash;
> 		char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(hash)];
> 	} desc;
>
>
> sparse complains
>
> CHECK   crypto/hmac.c
> crypto/hmac.c:57:47: error: bad constant expression
>
> I like it instead of kmalloc..
>
> But what is position of kernel community about it?

If you know that the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is bounded, 
just use the upper bound.

If the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is unbounded, then the stack 
will overflow and ... BOOM!

David Daney



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