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Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)
Date 2016-06-22 04:00 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> Is there a straightforward way that bluetooth and, potentially, other
>> drivers can just do synchronous crypto in a small buffer specified by
>> its virtual address?  The actual cryptography part of the crypto code
>> already works this way, but I can't find an API for it.
>
> Yes, single block users should use crypto_cipher_encrypt_one, an
> example would be drivers/md/dm-crypt.c.
>

Aha!  I expected something like that to exist, but I couldn't find it.
I'll change the two offenders I've found so far to use it.

--Andy

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Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-21 19:50 +0200
  Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-06-22 03:10 +0200
    Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-22 04:00 +0200
      Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-22 23:50 +0200
        Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-23 01:50 +0200
          Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-06-23 05:50 +0200
            Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-06-23 08:50 +0200
        Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack  crash, etc) Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-06-23 05:40 +0200

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