Re: [PATCH 01/11] crypto: shash: Remove VLA usage

Christophe LEROY
2018-06-20T20:40:04Z

Le 20/06/2018 à 22:36, Kees Cook a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/20/2018 07:03 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
>>> removes the VLAs in SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK (via crypto_shash_descsize())
>>> by using the maximum allowable size (which is now more clearly captured
>>> in a macro). Similar limits are turned into macros as well.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>
>>
>> Got the following warnings:
>>
>> crypto/testmgr.c: In function ‘alg_test_crc32c.part.4’:
>> crypto/testmgr.c:1896:1: warning: the frame size of 2088 bytes is larger
>> than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>> crypto/hmac.c: In function ‘hmac_setkey’:
>> crypto/hmac.c:88:1: warning: the frame size of 2088 bytes is larger than
>> 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> Ah yes. I didn't do 32-bit builds. So, here's the issue: this uncovers
> the frame size problems that were hidden by in being a VLA before. It
> was always possible for the frame to get this big, it's just that the
> compiler couldn't see it.
>
> For qat, I raised the -Wframe-larger-than flag. It seems we'll need to
> do this in some other places too.

Maybe the issue is because I have selected 16k pages ?

Christophe

>
> -Kees
>