On Tue, 8 May 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Tycho Andersen <ty...@tycho.ws> wrote:
> > We're interested in getting rid of all of the stack allocated arrays in the
> > kernel [1]. This patch simply hardcodes the iv length to match that of the
> > hardcoded cipher.
> >
> > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> >
> > v2: hardcode the length of the nonce to be the GCM AES IV length, and do a
> > sanity check in init(), Eric Biggers
> > v3: * remember to free big_key_aead when sanity check fails
> > * define a constant for big key IV size so it can be changed along side
> > the algorithm in the code
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <ty...@tycho.ws>
> > CC: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
> > CC: James Morris <jmor...@namei.org>
> > CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <se...@hallyn.com>
> > CC: Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com>
> > CC: Eric Biggers <ebigge...@gmail.com>
>
> Please consider this and patches 2 and 3:
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>
> James, are these something you can take into your tree?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Kees
>
> > ---
> > security/keys/big_key.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/security/keys/big_key.c b/security/keys/big_key.c
> > index 933623784ccd..2806e70d7f8f 100644
> > --- a/security/keys/big_key.c
> > +++ b/security/keys/big_key.c
> > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> > #include <keys/user-type.h>
> > #include <keys/big_key-type.h>
> > #include <crypto/aead.h>
> > +#include <crypto/gcm.h>
> >
> > struct big_key_buf {
> > unsigned int nr_pages;
> > @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ struct key_type key_type_big_key = {
Sure!
--
James Morris
<jmor...@namei.org>
