Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2014, 04:33:41 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > > > > PS we should add a length check for missing/partial auth tags > > > to crypto_aead_decrypt. We can then remove such checks from > > > individual implementations. > > > > I agree in full here. Shall I create such a patch together with the AEAD > > AF_ALG interface, or can we merge the AEAD without that patch now and > > create a separate patch later? > > We should at least add a check in crypto_aead_decrypt first so as > to guarantee nothing slips through. I have prepared a patch for this which I will release shortly. IMHO that patch should not have any significant performance penalty. I will also remove the respective check from the algif_aead implementation. In addition, I would suggest to add a similar check for the encryption operation to verify that the ciphertext buffer is at least as large as the blocks needed for plaintext plus the memory needed for the auth tag (note, my first attempts working with AEAD lead to days of debugging of kernel crashers as I did not understand I had too little memory allocated for the ciphertext buffer). However, such check needs to traverse all plaintext scatterlist entries which may have a noticeable performance hit. Do you see the need for such check? If yes, do you see a way to avoid traversing all plaintext scatterlist entries? Thanks -- Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
