[PATCH] crypto: arm64/sm4 - Fix possible crash in GCM cryption

Tianjia Zhang tianjia.zhang at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Jan 31 01:39:50 PST 2023


Hi Herbert,

On 1/30/23 5:01 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:15:33PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> Actually I think there is a serious bug here.  If you're doing an
>> empty message, you must not call skcipher_walk_done as that may
>> then free random uninitialised stack memory.
> 
> Hah, I had forgotten that this thread started with your patch
> to fix this exact bug :)
> 
> Could you confirm that you did copy this from ccm?
> 
> It would be nice if you could rewrite your loop in a form similar
> to my patch to ccm.
> 
> Thanks,

These codes are copied from gcm and ccm at the same time. I am not sure
which has more components, but I will rewrite the gcm and ccm encryption
loop of sm4 as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Tianjia



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