Re: [PATCH 2/2] fscrypto: don't use on-stack buffer for key derivation

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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 03:03:02PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> With the new (in 4.9) option to use a virtually-mapped stack
> (CONFIG_VMAP_STACK), stack buffers cannot be used as input/output for
> the scatterlist crypto API because they may not be directly mappable to
> struct page.  get_crypt_info() was using a stack buffer to hold the
> output from the encryption operation used to derive the per-file key.
> Fix it by using a heap buffer.
> 
> This bug could most easily be observed in a CONFIG_DEBUG_SG kernel
> because this allowed the BUG in sg_set_buf() to be triggered.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

This commit is on the fscrypt and dev branches on ext4.git.

     	       	      	      	  - Ted
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