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From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix out of bound read in __test_aead()
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:40:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF7C71.9080408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160201142640.GA11363@gondor.apana.org.au>

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On 02/01/2016 03:26 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:10:09PM +0100, Jerome Marchand wrote:
>> __test_aead() reads MAX_IVLEN bytes from template[i].iv, but the
>> actual length of the initialisation vector can be shorter.
>> The length of the IV is already calculated earlier in the
>> function. Let's just reuses that.
>> This fix an out-of-bound error detected by KASan.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
> 
> This patch creates a new warning that iv_len may be uninitialised.

I see. iv_len is set for each templates. I don't see why we would like
to call crypto_aead_ivsize() more than once. Moving the initialization
of iv_len out of the loop should solve the warning.

> 
> Please fix this and resubmit.

Will do.

Jerome

> 
> Thanks,
> 



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-29 13:10 [PATCH] fix out of bound read in __test_aead() Jerome Marchand
2016-02-01 14:26 ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-01 15:40   ` Jerome Marchand [this message]
2016-02-03 12:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Jerome Marchand
2016-02-06  7:48   ` Herbert Xu

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