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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] crypto/ecc: Remove stack VLA usage
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 01:57:02PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1], this switches to
>> a pair of kmalloc regions instead of using the stack. This also moves
>> the get_random_bytes() after all allocations (and drops the needless
>> "nbytes" variable).
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Patch applied. Thanks.

Hi, sorry for the noise on this one: I messed up looking at the ecc
code (I confused myself into thinking there was only a single instance
of the problem). The applied patch is both incomplete and inefficient.
I have a much simpler solution, and I'll send that with a revert...

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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