Re: [PATCH 1/3] sha512: make it work, undo percpu message schedule

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Le samedi 14 janvier 2012 à 21:27 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan a écrit :
> commit f9e2bca6c22d75a289a349f869701214d63b5060
> aka "crypto: sha512 - Move message schedule W[80] to static percpu area"
> created global message schedule area.


> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> 
>  crypto/sha512_generic.c |    6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/crypto/sha512_generic.c
> +++ b/crypto/sha512_generic.c
> @@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
>  #include <asm/byteorder.h>
>  
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64[80], msg_schedule);
> -
>  static inline u64 Ch(u64 x, u64 y, u64 z)
>  {
>          return z ^ (x & (y ^ z));
> @@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ sha512_transform(u64 *state, const u8 *input)
>  	u64 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, t1, t2;
>  
>  	int i;
> -	u64 *W = get_cpu_var(msg_schedule);
> +	u64 W[80];
>  
>  	/* load the input */
>          for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
> @@ -128,8 +126,6 @@ sha512_transform(u64 *state, const u8 *input)
>  
>  	/* erase our data */
>  	a = b = c = d = e = f = g = h = t1 = t2 = 0;
> -	memset(W, 0, sizeof(__get_cpu_var(msg_schedule)));
> -	put_cpu_var(msg_schedule);
>  }
>  
>  static int

Is it just me or are you ignoring what crypto maintainer and others
thought of your patch ?

You are re-introducing a 640 bytes stack array, how comes it can be
really safe ?

This is too risky, and we provided an alternate patch, not just for fun.


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