netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 18/18] crypto: Remove AHASH_REQUEST_ON

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:53:26 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 18/18] crypto: Remove AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 09:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> All users of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK have been removed from the kernel, so
>> drop it entirely so no VLAs get reintroduced by future users.
>
> checkpatch has a test for that.
> It could now be removed as well.
> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 34e4683de7a3..a3517334d661 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ our $declaration_macros = qr{(?x:
>         (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]*_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-9]+){1,6}\s*\(|
>         (?:$Storage\s+)?[HLP]?LIST_HEAD\s*\(|
>         (?:$Storage\s+)?${Type}\s+uninitialized_var\s*\(|
> -       (?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(
> +       (?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC)_ON_STACK\s*\(
>  )};

Ah! Cool. I've added this now.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security