Re: [bug] sha1-avx2 and read beyond

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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:46:57AM -0400, Jan Stancek wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm seeing rare crashes during NFS cthon with krb5 auth. After
> > some digging I arrived at potential problem with sha1-avx2.
> 
> Adding more sha1_avx2 experts to CC.
> 
> > 
> > Problem appears to be that sha1_transform_avx2() reads beyond
> > number of blocks you pass, if it is an odd number. It appears
> > to try read one block more. This creates a problem if it falls
> > beyond a page and there's nothing there.
> 
> As noted in my reply, worst case appears to be read ahead
> of up to 3 SHA1 blocks beyond end of data:
>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=149373371023377
> 
>  +----------+---------+---------+---------+
>  | 2*SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE  | 2*SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE |
>  +----------+---------+---------+---------+
>             ^ page boundary
>     ^ data end
> 
> It is still reproducible with 4.12-rc2.

Can someone from Intel please look into this? Otherwise we'll have
to disable sha-avx2.

Thanks,
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