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From: tycho@tycho.ws (Tycho Andersen)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] big key: get rid of stack array allocation
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:51:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424145104.GC3125@cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201804242346.FHI69745.SQMHFVOOFLFOJt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:46:38PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > > > +	if (unlikely(crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead) != GCM_AES_IV_SIZE)) {
> > > > +		WARN(1, "big key algorithm changed?");
> 
> Please avoid using WARN() WARN_ON() etc.
> syzbot would catch it and panic() due to panic_on_warn == 1.

But it is really a programming bug in this case (and it seems better
than BUG()...). Isn't this exactly the sort of case we want to catch?

Tycho
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-24  1:03 [PATCH 1/3] big key: get rid of stack array allocation Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24  1:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] dh key: get rid of stack allocated array Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24  1:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] dh key: get rid of stack allocated array for zeroes Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24  3:13   ` Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24  4:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] big key: get rid of stack array allocation Eric Biggers
2018-04-24 14:35   ` Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24 14:46     ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-24 14:51       ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2018-04-24 19:58         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-04-24 20:04           ` Kees Cook
2018-04-25 10:36             ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-04-25 14:15               ` Tycho Andersen
2018-04-24 20:09           ` Eric Biggers

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