Re: [PATCH] iscsi-target: Make buf param of iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf()const void *

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c

> @@ -3585,9 +3575,8 @@ static int iscsit_send_reject(
>         }
>
>         if (conn->conn_ops->DataDigest) {
> -               iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf(&conn->conn_tx_hash,
> -                               (unsigned char *)cmd->buf_ptr, ISCSI_HDR_LEN,
> -                               0, NULL, (u8 *)&cmd->data_crc);
> +               iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf(&conn->conn_tx_hash, cmd->buf_ptr,
> +                               ISCSI_HDR_LEN, 0, NULL, (u8 *)&cmd->data_crc);

BTW, there are serious issues with casting pointers to u32s to pointers to u8s
for the last two output parameters of iscsit_do_crypto_hash_buf() (pad_bytes
and data_crc):
  1. It's not endian-safe,
  2. In many cases, the original u32 was not initialized at all, so the other 24
      bits contain garbage. This will cause 32-bit comparisons like

        if (checksum != data_crc)

     to fail in unpredictable ways.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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