On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:04:02PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> exposes the existing upper bound on crypto block sizes for VLA removal,
> and introduces a new check for alignmask (current maximum in the kernel
> is 63 from manual inspection of all cra_alignmask settings).
> 
> [1] 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qpxydaacu1rq...@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> ---
>  crypto/algapi.c        | 5 ++++-
>  include/linux/crypto.h | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/algapi.c b/crypto/algapi.c
> index c0755cf4f53f..760a412b059c 100644
> --- a/crypto/algapi.c
> +++ b/crypto/algapi.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ static int crypto_check_alg(struct crypto_alg *alg)
>       if (alg->cra_alignmask & (alg->cra_alignmask + 1))
>               return -EINVAL;
>  
> -     if (alg->cra_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE / 8)
> +     if (alg->cra_blocksize > CRYPTO_ALG_MAX_BLOCKSIZE)
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +
> +     if (alg->cra_alignmask > CRYPTO_ALG_MAX_ALIGNMASK)
>               return -EINVAL;
>  
>       if (!alg->cra_type && (alg->cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) ==
> diff --git a/include/linux/crypto.h b/include/linux/crypto.h
> index 6eb06101089f..e76ffcbd5aa6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/crypto.h
> +++ b/include/linux/crypto.h
> @@ -134,6 +134,10 @@
>   */
>  #define CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME          128
>  
> +/* Maximum values for registered algorithms. */
> +#define CRYPTO_ALG_MAX_BLOCKSIZE    (PAGE_SIZE / 8)
> +#define CRYPTO_ALG_MAX_ALIGNMASK    63
> +

How do these differ from MAX_CIPHER_BLOCKSIZE and MAX_CIPHER_ALIGNMASK, and why
are they declared in different places?

- Eric

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