Re: [bug] crypto/vmx/p8_ghash memory corruption in 4.8-rc7

[Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> To: "Marcelo Cerri" <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
> Cc: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>, "rui y wang" <rui.y.wang@intel.com>, mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
> leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
> linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 5:08:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [bug] crypto/vmx/p8_ghash memory corruption in 4.8-rc7
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:43:17PM -0300, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't be enough to provide a pair of import/export functions as the
> > padlock-sha driver does?
> 
> I don't think that will help as ultimately you need to call the
> export function on the fallback and that's what requires the extra
> memory.  In fact very operation involving the fallback will need
> that extra memory too.

So, if we extended p8_ghash_desc_ctx to accommodate fallback_desc's ctx
and then provided statesize/import/export, would that be acceptable?

struct p8_ghash_desc_ctx {
        ...
        struct shash_desc fallback_desc;
+       char fallback_ctx[sizeof(struct ghash_desc_ctx)];


Also, does that mean that padlock_sha has similar problem?
It does not seem to reserve any space for fallback __ctx and it calls
init()/update()/export() with padlock_sha_desc's fallback:

struct padlock_sha_desc {
        struct shash_desc fallback;
};

static struct shash_alg sha1_alg = {
        .descsize       =       sizeof(struct padlock_sha_desc),

Regards,
Jan

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