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From: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cryptoapi highmem bug
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:32:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225043209.GA1179@certainkey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077663682.6493.1.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:01:24AM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Am Di, den 24.02.2004 schrieb Jean-Luc Cooke um 23:34:
> 
> > What is calling cbc_process directly?  I don't see how any other function
> > could possibly call this function directly.
> 
> Nobody is calling it directly.
> 
> > cipher.c's cipher() function called cbc_process() with two different src and
> > dst buffers, *always*.
> 
> It you pass the same to ->encrypt_iv (like kblockd for reads) it will
> kmap the same page twice and call cbc_process with two different virtual
> addresses pointing to the same page.

Ah right.  Wanring: this is a cryptographer hacking kernel - danger!

How do I check for equal real addresses from two virtual ones?

JLC

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 20:49 cryptoapi highmem bug Christophe Saout
2004-02-24 22:34 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-24 23:01   ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25  4:32     ` Jean-Luc Cooke [this message]
2004-02-25  6:00       ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 13:27         ` James Morris
2004-02-25 15:17           ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 19:50           ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 21:27             ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 21:41               ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 22:55             ` [PATCH 1/2] move scatterwalk functions to own file Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 22:55             ` [PATCH 2/2] fix in-place de/encryption bug with highmem Christophe Saout
2004-02-26  4:13               ` James Morris
2004-02-26 11:03                 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:31         ` cryptoapi highmem bug Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:51           ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:44             ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 16:13               ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 16:09                 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 18:11                   ` cryptoapi OMAC (was: cryptoapi highmem bug) Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:59                     ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 21:44                       ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 18:15               ` cryptoapi highmem bug Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:12                 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 20:39                   ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:46                     ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 21:36                       ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 21:52                         ` Jean-Luc Cooke

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