linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 11/14] treewide: Prepare to remove VLA usage for AHASH_REQUEST_ON

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:54:06 +0900
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.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>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        "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 v4 11/14] treewide: Prepare to remove VLA usage for AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK

On 19 July 2018 at 12:13, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Jul 2018, at 12:09, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
>> <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
>>> I have only build tested it, so if you make sure that it does not break anything, please go ahead.
>>
>> I can give it a spin; what's the best way? Is CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y
>> sufficient?
>>
>
> You should be able to test ccm(aes) with tcrypt, yes

Apologies, I should have been more clear here. I was replying on my
phone while attending a meeting.

The builtin test will only kick in for chaining mode templates if they
are instantiated by something that invokes the algorithm, such as
loading tcrypt.ko with mode=37 (assuming that ccm(aes) has to be
instantiated from crypto/ccm.c and some AES cipher rather than being
provided directly by, e.g., arm64's AES-CCM driver)

I just did the tcrypt myself, and the patch appears to be fine. Let me
know if you want me to spin the patch.