From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, anton@enomsg.org,
ccross@android.com, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] pstore: Fix long-term implicit conversions in the compression routines
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:37:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202210071234.D289C8C@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXF27wZYzXm1u3kKSBtbG=tcK7wOwq6YTwpFg+Z7ic4siQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 10:47:01AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 01:36, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:42:09PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> > > The pstore infrastructure is capable of compressing collected logs,
> > > relying for that in many compression "libraries" present on kernel.
> > > Happens that the (de)compression code in pstore performs many
> > > implicit conversions from unsigned int/size_t to int, and vice-versa.
> > > Specially in the compress buffer size calculation, we notice that
> > > even the libs are not consistent, some of them return int, most of
> > > them unsigned int and others rely on preprocessor calculation.
> > >
> > > Here is an attempt to make it consistent: since we're talking
> > > about buffer sizes, let's go with unsigned types, since negative
> > > sizes don't make sense.
> >
> > Thanks for this! I want to go through this more carefully, but I'm a fan
> > of the clean-up. I'd also like to get Ard's compression refactor landed
> > again, and then do this on top of it.
> >
>
> Isn't this the stuff we want to move into the crypto API?
It is, yes. Guilherme, for background:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20180802215118.17752-1-keescook@chromium.org/
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-07 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-06 22:42 [PATCH 0/8] Some pstore improvements Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] pstore: Improve error reporting in case of backend overlap Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:27 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 23:35 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] pstore: Expose kmsg_bytes as a module parameter Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:32 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-12 15:33 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-12 17:58 ` Kees Cook
2022-11-01 19:08 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] pstore: Inform unregistered backend names as well Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] pstore: Alert on backend write error Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:27 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 23:34 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:44 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] pstore: Fix long-term implicit conversions in the compression routines Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:36 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-07 8:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-07 19:37 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-10-08 14:14 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-08 15:53 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-08 16:03 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-08 17:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-08 18:12 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-08 19:44 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-10 7:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] MAINTAINERS: Add a mailing-list for the pstore infrastructure Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:22 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 23:29 ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-06 23:37 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-07 16:19 ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-07 16:21 ` Colin Cross
2022-10-07 16:32 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-07 19:25 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] efi: pstore: Follow convention for the efi-pstore backend name Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:16 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-07 8:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-14 17:41 ` (subset) " Kees Cook
2024-06-03 23:02 ` Stephen Boyd
2024-06-04 19:05 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 22:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] efi: pstore: Add module parameter for setting the record size Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-06 23:16 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-07 9:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-07 13:00 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-07 13:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-07 13:45 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-07 15:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-07 17:01 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-07 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-07 23:29 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-08 2:36 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-06 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/8] Some pstore improvements Kees Cook
2022-10-12 15:50 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-10-12 17:59 ` Kees Cook
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