Re: [PATCH 1/3] big key: get rid of stack array allocation

From: Tycho Andersen
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 10:51:37 EST


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:46:38PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > > > + if (unlikely(crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead) != GCM_AES_IV_SIZE)) {
> > > > + WARN(1, "big key algorithm changed?");
>
> Please avoid using WARN() WARN_ON() etc.
> syzbot would catch it and panic() due to panic_on_warn == 1.

But it is really a programming bug in this case (and it seems better
than BUG()...). Isn't this exactly the sort of case we want to catch?

Tycho