netdev - Re: [PATCH] crypto: user - support incremental algorithm dumps

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Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:34:50 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        LABBE Corentin <clabbe@...libre.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: user - support incremental algorithm dumps

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 03:55:41PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG in NLM_F_DUMP mode sometimes doesn't return all
> registered crypto algorithms, because it doesn't support incremental
> dumps.  crypto_dump_report() only permits itself to be called once, yet
> the netlink subsystem allocates at most ~64 KiB for the skb being dumped
> to.  Thus only the first recvmsg() returns data, and it may only include
> a subset of the crypto algorithms even if the user buffer passed to
> recvmsg() is large enough to hold all of them.
> 
> Fix this by using one of the arguments in the netlink_callback structure
> to keep track of the current position in the algorithm list.  Then
> userspace can do multiple recvmsg() on the socket after sending the dump
> request.  This is the way netlink dumps work elsewhere in the kernel;
> it's unclear why this was different (probably just an oversight).
> 
> Also fix an integer overflow when calculating the dump buffer size hint.
> 
> Fixes: a38f7907b926 ("crypto: Add userspace configuration API")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> ---
>  crypto/crypto_user_base.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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