From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>,
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Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
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Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: ecc - Unbreak the build on arm with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK=y
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 15:56:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aftIhnaK7RKCO6F7@wunner.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aftFQUoLcQTgW_CO@ashevche-desk.local>
On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 04:42:25PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > A longterm solution is to refactor ecc.c for reduced stack usage. It
> > currently performs ECC point multiplication with a Montgomery ladder
> > which uses co-Z (conjugate) addition to trade off memory for speed.
> > The algorithm is susceptible to timing attacks and needs to be replaced
> > with a constant time Montgomery ladder, which should consume less memory
> > and thus resolve the stack usage issue as a side effect.
[...]
> > +# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124949
>
> Perhaps also mention the algo change as that one sounds to me even more
> critical than this issue per se.
Hm, but it's already mentioned above in the commit message?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-06 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-06 13:27 [PATCH v2] crypto: ecc - Unbreak the build on arm with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK=y Lukas Wunner
2026-05-06 13:42 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-05-06 13:56 ` Lukas Wunner [this message]
2026-05-06 14:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-05-07 4:26 ` Herbert Xu
2026-05-07 9:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
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