* on stack dynamic allocations
@ 2012-08-16 21:20 Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-08-16 21:30 ` David Daney
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From: Kasatkin, Dmitry @ 2012-08-16 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: herbert; +Cc: linux-crypto, LKML, linux-security-module
Hello,
Some places in the code uses variable-size allocation on stack..
For example from hmac_setkey():
struct {
struct shash_desc shash;
char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(hash)];
} desc;
sparse complains
CHECK crypto/hmac.c
crypto/hmac.c:57:47: error: bad constant expression
I like it instead of kmalloc..
But what is position of kernel community about it?
- Dmitry
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* Re: on stack dynamic allocations
2012-08-16 21:20 on stack dynamic allocations Kasatkin, Dmitry
@ 2012-08-16 21:30 ` David Daney
2012-08-17 8:18 ` Jussi Kivilinna
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Daney @ 2012-08-16 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kasatkin, Dmitry; +Cc: herbert, linux-crypto, LKML, linux-security-module
On 08/16/2012 02:20 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some places in the code uses variable-size allocation on stack..
> For example from hmac_setkey():
>
> struct {
> struct shash_desc shash;
> char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(hash)];
> } desc;
>
>
> sparse complains
>
> CHECK crypto/hmac.c
> crypto/hmac.c:57:47: error: bad constant expression
>
> I like it instead of kmalloc..
>
> But what is position of kernel community about it?
If you know that the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is bounded,
just use the upper bound.
If the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is unbounded, then the stack
will overflow and ... BOOM!
David Daney
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* Re: on stack dynamic allocations
2012-08-16 21:30 ` David Daney
@ 2012-08-17 8:18 ` Jussi Kivilinna
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From: Jussi Kivilinna @ 2012-08-17 8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Daney
Cc: Kasatkin, Dmitry, herbert, linux-crypto, LKML,
linux-security-module
Quoting David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>:
> On 08/16/2012 02:20 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some places in the code uses variable-size allocation on stack..
>> For example from hmac_setkey():
>>
>> struct {
>> struct shash_desc shash;
>> char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(hash)];
>> } desc;
>>
>>
>> sparse complains
>>
>> CHECK crypto/hmac.c
>> crypto/hmac.c:57:47: error: bad constant expression
>>
>> I like it instead of kmalloc..
>>
>> But what is position of kernel community about it?
>
> If you know that the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is
> bounded, just use the upper bound.
>
> If the range of crypto_shash_descsize(hash) is unbounded, then the
> stack will overflow and ... BOOM!
>
Quick look shows that largest crypto_shash_descsize() would be with
hmac+s390/sha512, 16 + 332 = 348. Crypto-api also prevents registering
shash with descsize larger than (PAGE_SIZE / 8).
-Jussi
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