On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 08:42:59PM -0800, Junaid Shahid wrote: > The aesni_gcm_enc/dec functions can access memory after the end of > the AAD buffer if the AAD length is not a multiple of 4 bytes. > It didn't matter with rfc4106-gcm-aesni as in that case the AAD was > always followed by the 8 byte IV, but that is no longer the case with > generic-gcm-aesni. This can potentially result in accessing a page that > is not mapped and thus causing the machine to crash. This patch fixes > that by reading the last <16 byte block of the AAD byte-by-byte and > optionally via an 8-byte load if the block was at least 8 bytes. > > Fixes: 0487ccac ("crypto: aesni - make non-AVX AES-GCM work with any aadlen") [...] > -_get_AAD_rest0\num_initial_blocks\operation: > - /* finalize: shift out the extra bytes we read, and align > - left. since pslldq can only shift by an immediate, we use > - vpshufb and an array of shuffle masks */ > - movq %r12, %r11 > - salq $4, %r11 > - movdqu aad_shift_arr(%r11), \TMP1 > - PSHUFB_XMM \TMP1, %xmm\i aad_shift_arr is no longer used, so it should be removed. > -_get_AAD_rest_final\num_initial_blocks\operation: > + READ_PARTIAL_BLOCK %r10, %r12, %r11, \TMP1, \TMP2, %xmm\i It seems that INITIAL_BLOCKS_DEC and INITIAL_BLOCKS_ENC maintain both %r11 and %r12 as the AAD length. %r11 is used for real earlier, but here %r12 is used for real while %r11 is a temporary register. Can this be simplified to have the AAD length in %r11 only? Eric