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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: random: zero out secret after use and do not take minimum
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:31:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3WA2BU0vtsOu6pJ@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHJ4vQ=2dnJCAR1eOaM9FPvokYb_DODu+3MAR7XMMQ7fw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:44:20PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 21:06, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> >
> > Taking the minimum is wrong, if the bootloader or EFI stub is actually
> > passing on a bunch of bytes that it expects the kernel to hash itself.
> 
> We still need some kind of limit, just so things don't explode if
> seed->size is bogus.

Alright, let's just say 1k then. Will send a v2.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-16 20:05 [PATCH] efi: random: zero out secret after use and do not take minimum Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-11-16 21:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-11-17  0:31   ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-11-17  0:39     ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-11-18  8:39       ` Ard Biesheuvel

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