linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4] akcipher: new verify API for public key algorithms

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Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 14:26:55 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Vitaly Chikunov <vt@...linux.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Gary Hook <gary.hook@....com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, qat-linux@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4] akcipher: new verify API for public key algorithms

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 09:01:16PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
>
> @@ -781,36 +780,17 @@ static int tpm_key_verify_signature(const struct key *key,
>  	if (!req)
>  		goto error_free_tfm;
>  
> -	ret = -ENOMEM;
> -	outlen = crypto_akcipher_maxsize(tfm);
> -	output = kmalloc(outlen, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!output)
> -		goto error_free_req;
> -
> -	sg_init_one(&sig_sg, sig->s, sig->s_size);
> -	sg_init_one(&digest_sg, output, outlen);
> -	akcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &sig_sg, &digest_sg, sig->s_size,
> -				   outlen);
> +	sg_init_table(&src_sg, 2);
> +	sg_set_buf(&src_sg[0], sig->s, sig->s_size);
> +	sg_set_buf(&src_sg[1], sig->digest, sig->digest_size);
> +	akcipher_request_set_crypt(req, &src_sg, NULL, sig->s_size,
> +				   sig->digest_size);

It's not clear that sig->digest is guaranteed to be kmalloc memory.
In any case, it's best not to mix unrelated changes in a single
patch.  So please keep the kmalloc on output and then copy
sig->digest into it and put output into the SG list.

Thanks,
-- 
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