Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: properly handle null input and assoc data aead test vectors

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:36:10AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Currenty, if either input or associated data are null in an aead
> test vector, we'll have random contents of the input and assoc
> arrays. Similar to the iv, play it safe and zero out the contents.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch doesn't make sense unless you were getting a crash
without it.
 
> diff --git a/crypto/testmgr.c b/crypto/testmgr.c
> index bfee6e9..a8bdcb3 100644
> --- a/crypto/testmgr.c
> +++ b/crypto/testmgr.c
> @@ -314,8 +314,18 @@ static int test_aead(struct crypto_aead *tfm, int enc,
>  			input = xbuf[0];
>  			assoc = axbuf[0];
>  
> -			memcpy(input, template[i].input, template[i].ilen);
> -			memcpy(assoc, template[i].assoc, template[i].alen);
> +			if (template[i].input)
> +				memcpy(input, template[i].input,
> +				       template[i].ilen);
> +			else
> +				memset(input, 0, MAX_IVLEN);

If template[i].input was really NULL then the memcpy should crash.

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