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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 23:10:08 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/17] crypto: api - Change completion callback argument
to void star
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 18:21:06 +0800 Herbert Xu wrote:
> The crypto completion function currently takes a pointer to a
> struct crypto_async_request object. However, in reality the API
> does not allow the use of any part of the object apart from the
> data field. For example, ahash/shash will create a fake object
> on the stack to pass along a different data field.
"different data field" == copy the value to a different structure?
A bit hard to parse TBH.
> This leads to potential bugs where the user may try to dereference
> or otherwise use the crypto_async_request object.
>
> This series changes the completion function to take a void *
> argument instead of crypto_async_request.
>
> This series touches code in a number of different subsystems.
> Most of them are trivial except for tls which was actually buggy
> as it did exactly what was described above.
Buggy means bug could be hit in real light or buggy == did not use
the API right?
> I'd like to pull all the changes through the crypto tree. But
> feel free to object if you'd like the relevant patches to go
> through your trees instead and I'll split this up.
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