linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Don't put crypto buffers on the stack

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Date:   Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:48:47 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Don't put crypto buffers on the stack

From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:59:07 +0000

> Don't put buffers of data to be handed to crypto on the stack as this may
> cause an assertion failure in the kernel (see below).  Fix this by using an
> kmalloc'd buffer instead.
 ...
> Reported-by: Jonathan Billings <jsbillings@...illings.org>
> Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Jonathan Billings <jsbillings@...illings.org>

Applied, thanks David.