On Mon, 2022-12-12 at 17:15 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > The problem is a misalignment between req->src_len (set to sig->s_size > > by akcipher_request_set_crypt()) and the length of the scatterlist (if > > we set the latter to sig->s_size + sig->digest_size). > > > > When rsa_enc() calls mpi_read_raw_from_sgl(), it passes req->src_len as > > argument, and the latter allocates the MPI according to that. However, > > it does parsing depending on the length of the scatterlist. > > > > If there are two scatterlists, it is not a problem, there is no > > misalignment. mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() picks the first. If there is just > > one, mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() parses all data there. > > Thanks for the explanation. That's definitely a bug which should > be fixed either in the RSA code or in MPI. > > I'll look into it. Hi Herbert do you have any news on this bug? Thanks Roberto