Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] dm integrity: Remove VLA usage

Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-29T20:43:34Z

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
> index 86438b2f10dd..85e8ce1625a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
> @@ -521,7 +521,12 @@ static void section_mac(struct dm_integrity_c *ic, unsigned section, __u8 result
> }
> memset(result + size, 0, JOURNAL_MAC_SIZE - size);
> } else {
> - __u8 digest[size];
> + __u8 digest[SHASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE];
> +
> + if (WARN_ON(size > sizeof(digest))) {
> + dm_integrity_io_error(ic, "digest_size", -EINVAL);
> + goto err;
> + }

I'm still slightly worried that some patches like this one could make
things worse
and lead to an actual stack overflow. You define SHASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE
as '512', which is still quite a lot to put on the kernel stack. The
function also
uses SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(), so now you have two copies. Then you
could call shash_final_unaligned(), which seems to put a third copy on
the stack,
so replacing each one with a fixed-size buffer adds quite a bit of bloat.

Is there actually a digest that can be used in dm-integrity with more than 64
byte output (matching JOURNAL_MAC_SIZE) here?

Arnd