Re: [PATCH v4 13/14] rxrpc: Prepare to remove VLA usage for SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Two uses of SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK() will trigger FRAME_WARN warnings
>> (when less than 2048) once the VLA is no longer hidden from the check:
>>
>> net/rxrpc/rxkad.c:398:1: warning: the frame size of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>> net/rxrpc/rxkad.c:242:1: warning: the frame size of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>
>> This bumps the affected objects by 20% to silence the warnings while
>> still providing coverage is anything grows even more.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (adding David Howells to cc)
>
> I don't think these are in a fast path, it should be possible to just use
> skcipher_alloc_req() instead of SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK() here.
> From what I can tell, neither of the two are called in atomic context, so
> you should be able to use a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

Sure, I can do that instead.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security