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

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:04:14 -0300
From:   Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>
To:     Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        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

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:01:03AM -0400, Jan Stancek wrote:
> 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)];
> 

I think so. That's the solution mentioned by Herbert. The only drawback
is that we will need to fix "ghash-generic" as the fallback
implementation in order to know beforehand its descsize.

However I would keep the p8_ghash_desc_ctx the way it is and I would
sum sizeof(struct ghash_desc_ctx) to the algorithm descsize instead.

Let me put a quick patch together to test this.

> 
> 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),
> 

Yeah. It still seems to me that padlock-sha has the same problem. Maybe
we are missing something...

--
Regards,
Marcelo

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