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* cryptoapi highmem bug
@ 2004-02-24 20:49 Christophe Saout
  2004-02-24 22:34 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Saout @ 2004-02-24 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Morris; +Cc: LKML

Hi,

someone noticed strange corruptions with dm-crypt and highmem. After I
found out that I could force my machine to use highmem even though it
only has 256MB, I finally found the problem after some debugging:

The problem is in cbc_process (well, partly):

>      const int need_stack = (src == dst);
>      u8 stack[need_stack ? crypto_tfm_alg_blocksize(tfm) : 0];
>      u8 *buf = need_stack ? stack : dst;

src == dst fails if the page was in highmem because crypto_kmap will
assign two different virtual addresses for the same page.

The result is data corruption.

How could this be fixed?

scapperwalk_map could check if this page was already mapped (walk_in)
and reuse the virtual address if so. So a single page is only mapped
once and the check in cbc_process will work.

I can really use the src == dst case because I would need to allocate
unnecessary buffers (at least 512 bytes at a time and per cpu).

(I just hacked dm-crypt to allocate 512 bytes on the stack and use it
temporarily and kmap around myself to copy it back and the problem is
gone. Ugly.)



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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
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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