linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] crypto: skcipher: Remove VLA usage for SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1U1RNxmx-G5QCS8emzXc3nHqEN5bqmZDMqZBBmo3vCtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:44:42 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>,
        Lars Persson <larper@...s.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Rabin Vincent <rabinv@...s.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
        <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, qat-linux@...el.com,
        dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] crypto: skcipher: Remove VLA usage for SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> caps the skcipher request size similar to other limits and adds a sanity
> check at registration.
>
>
> +#define SKCIPHER_MAX_REQSIZE   (PAGE_SIZE / 8)
> +
>  #define SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK(name, tfm) \
>         char __##name##_desc[sizeof(struct skcipher_request) + \
> -               crypto_skcipher_reqsize(tfm)] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR; \
> +               SKCIPHER_MAX_REQSIZE] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR; \
>         struct skcipher_request *name = (void *)__##name##_desc
>

This is probably a bad idea on kernels with large values of PAGE_SIZE.
Some users on ppc64 and arm64 use 64KB here, but still limit
the per-function stack size to 2KB.

        Arnd