Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 21:04:25 EST
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Is there a straightforward way that bluetooth and, potentially, other
> drivers can just do synchronous crypto in a small buffer specified by
> its virtual address? The actual cryptography part of the crypto code
> already works this way, but I can't find an API for it.
Yes, single block users should use crypto_cipher_encrypt_one, an
example would be drivers/md/dm-crypt.c.
Cheers,
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