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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] crypto: avoid undefined behavior in nettle calls
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:43:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150717174339.GD4622@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437062641-12684-3-git-send-email-rkrcmar@redhat.com>

Am 16.07.2015 um 18:04 hat Radim Krčmář geschrieben:
> Calling a function pointer that was cast from an incompatible function
> results in undefined behavior.  'void *' isn't compatible with 'struct
> XXX *', so we can't cast to nettle_cipher_func, but have to provide a
> wrapper.  (Conversion from 'void *' to 'struct XXX *' might require
> computation, which won't be done if we drop argument's true type and
> pointers can have different sizes so passing arguments on stack would
> bug.)
> 
> Having two different prototypes based on nettle version doesn't make
> this solution any nicer.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

git bisect says that it's this commit which broke qemu-iotests 134.

> +static void aes_decrypt_wrapper(cipher_ctx_t ctx, cipher_length_t length,
> +                         uint8_t *dst, const uint8_t *src)
> +{
> +    aes_encrypt(ctx, length, dst, src);
> +}

And this is why (decrypt -> encrypt). I'll send a fix.

Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-17 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-16 16:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] crypto: nettle fixes Radim Krčmář
2015-07-16 16:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] crypto: fix build with nettle >= 3.0.0 Radim Krčmář
2015-07-17 10:54   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-07-16 16:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] crypto: avoid undefined behavior in nettle calls Radim Krčmář
2015-07-17 10:55   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-07-17 17:43   ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2015-07-16 16:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] crypto: use CPP for wrapper definitions in nettle Radim Krčmář
2015-07-16 16:11   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-17 11:00     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-07-17 11:00       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-17 10:58   ` Daniel P. Berrange

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