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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mac80211: aes-cmac: remove VLA usage
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On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 08:42 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them
> with dynamic memory allocation instead.
>
> The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
> can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
> or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to
> lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime
> failures that are hard to debug.
>
> Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c b/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
> index 2fb6558..c9444bf 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.c
> @@ -27,30 +27,42 @@ static const u8 zero[CMAC_TLEN_256];
> void ieee80211_aes_cmac(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *aad,
> const u8 *data, size_t data_len, u8 *mic)
> {
> - SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(desc, tfm);
> + struct shash_desc *shash;
> u8 out[AES_BLOCK_SIZE];
>
> - desc->tfm = tfm;
> + shash = kmalloc(sizeof(*shash) + crypto_shash_descsize(tfm),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!shash)
> + return;

Honestly, this seems like a really bad idea - you're now hitting
kmalloc for every TX/RX frame here.

SHA_DESC_ON_STACK() should just be fixed to not need a VLA, but take
some sort of maximum, I guess?

johannes

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