Re: [PATCH crypto -v4 2/2] AES-NI: Add support to Intel AES-NIinstructions for x86_64 platform

From: Huang Ying
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 22:37:40 EST


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:26 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:37:02AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> >
> > But after checking blkcipher_walk_done() in 2.6.28, If input argument
> > err != 0 and walk->flags & BLKCIPHER_WALK_SLOW != 0, when
> > blkcipher_walk_done() return non-zero, walk->nbytes != 0. So I think it
> > is a little fragile to use walk->nbytes == 0 indicate error.
>
> Right, that's a bug. Although this case shouldn't occur unless
> wer have a buggy algorithm (that's why it's a WARN_ON). But as
> we're handling it anyway, we should ensure that the result is sane.
>
> crypt: blkcipher - Fix WARN_ON handling in walk_done
>
> When we get left-over bits from a slow walk, it means that the
> underlying cipher has gone troppo. However, as we're handling
> that case we should ensure that the caller terminates the walk.
>
> This patch does this by setting walk->nbytes to zero.
>
> Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

I think Roel Kluin is the real reporter.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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