Hi Ard, Thanks for the prompt reply. With the patch, there is no panic anymore. But it seems that the encryption/decryption is not successful anyway. As Herbert points out, "If the page allocation fails in blkcipher_walk_next it'll simply switch over to processing it block by block". So does that mean the encryption/decryption should be successful even if the page allocation fails? Please correct me if I misunderstand anything. Thanks in advance. Regards, Shuoran > -----Original Message----- > From: Ard Biesheuvel [mailto:ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 6:57 PM > To: Xiakaixu > Cc: Herbert Xu; David S. Miller; Theodore Ts'o; Jaegeuk Kim; > nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mh1@xxxxxx; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wangbintian; liushuoran; Huxinwei; zhangzhibin > (C) > Subject: Re: Kernel panic - encryption/decryption failed when open file on > Arm64 > > On 9 September 2016 at 11:31, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 9 September 2016 at 11:19, xiakaixu <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> After a deeply research about this crash, seems it is a specific > >> bug that only exists in armv8 board. And it occurs in this function > >> in arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c. > >> > >> static int ctr_encrypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, struct scatterlist *dst, > >> struct scatterlist *src, unsigned int nbytes) > >> { > >> ... > >> > >> desc->flags &= ~CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP; > >> blkcipher_walk_init(&walk, dst, src, nbytes); > >> err = blkcipher_walk_virt_block(desc, &walk, AES_BLOCK_SIZE); > ---> > >> page allocation failed > >> > >> ... > >> > >> while ((blocks = (walk.nbytes / AES_BLOCK_SIZE))) > { ----> > >> walk.nbytes = 0, and skip this loop > >> aes_ctr_encrypt(walk.dst.virt.addr, walk.src.virt.addr, > >> (u8 *)ctx->key_enc, rounds, blocks, > walk.iv, > >> first); > >> ... > >> err = blkcipher_walk_done(desc, &walk, > >> walk.nbytes % > AES_BLOCK_SIZE); > >> } > >> if (nbytes) > { ----> > >> enter this if() statement > >> u8 *tdst = walk.dst.virt.addr + blocks * AES_BLOCK_SIZE; > >> u8 *tsrc = walk.src.virt.addr + blocks * AES_BLOCK_SIZE; > >> ... > >> > >> aes_ctr_encrypt(tail, tsrc, (u8 *)ctx->key_enc, rounds, > >> ----> the the sencond input parameter is NULL, so crash... > >> blocks, walk.iv, first); > >> ... > >> } > >> ... > >> } > >> > >> > >> If the page allocation failed in the function blkcipher_walk_virt_block(), > >> the variable walk.nbytes = 0, so it will skip the while() loop and enter > >> the if(nbytes) statment. But here the varibale tsrc is NULL and it is also > >> the sencond input parameter of the function aes_ctr_encrypt()... Kernel > >> Panic... > >> > >> I have also researched the similar function in other architectures, and > >> there if(walk.nbytes) is used, not this if(nbytes) statement in the armv8. > >> so I think this armv8 function ctr_encrypt() should deal with the page > >> allocation failed situation. > >> > > Does this solve your problem? > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c > index 5c888049d061..6b2aa0fd6cd0 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c > @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static int ctr_encrypt(struct blkcipher_desc > *desc, struct scatterlist *dst, > err = blkcipher_walk_done(desc, &walk, > walk.nbytes % AES_BLOCK_SIZE); > } > - if (nbytes) { > + if (walk.nbytes % AES_BLOCK_SIZE) { > u8 *tdst = walk.dst.virt.addr + blocks * AES_BLOCK_SIZE; > u8 *tsrc = walk.src.virt.addr + blocks * AES_BLOCK_SIZE; > u8 __aligned(8) tail[AES_BLOCK_SIZE]; ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���{ay�ʇڙ���f���h������_�(�階�ݢj"��������G����?���&��