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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] crypto: add buffer overflow checks to testmgr
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:32:54AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> At present, its entirely possible to add a test vector to testmgr with
> an input longer than a page in length w/o specifying a .np option, and
> overflow the page of memory allocated to {a,}xbuf[0], silently
> corrupting memory. I know, because I've accidentally done it. :)
>
> While this doesn't currently happen in practice w/the existing code,
> due to all !np vectors being less than a 4k page in length (and the
> page allocation loop often returns contiguous pages anyway), explicit
> checks or a way to remove the 4k limit would be a good idea.
>
> A few ways to fix and/or work around this:
>
> 1) allocate some larger guaranteed contiguous buffers using
> __get_free_pages() or kmalloc and use them in the !np case
>
> 2) catch the > PAGE_SIZE && !np case and then do things similar to how
> they are done in the np case
>
> 3) catch the > PAGE_SIZE && !np case and simply exit with an error
>
> Since there currently aren't any test vectors that are actually larger
> than a page and not tagged np, option 1 seems like a waste of memory
> and option 2 sounds like unnecessary complexity, so I'd offer up
> option 3 as the most viable alternative right now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>

I just posted exactly the same thing yesterday :)
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