On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:18:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> caps the skcipher request size similar to other limits and adds a sanity
> check at registration. Looking at instrumented tcrypt output, the largest
> is for lrw:
> 
>       crypt: testing lrw(aes)
>       crypto_skcipher_set_reqsize: 8
>       crypto_skcipher_set_reqsize: 88
>       crypto_skcipher_set_reqsize: 472
> 
> [1] 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qpxydaacu1rq...@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> ---
>  include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h | 1 +
>  include/crypto/skcipher.h          | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h 
> b/include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h
> index e42f7063f245..5035482cbe68 100644
> --- a/include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h
> +++ b/include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h
> @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ static inline struct crypto_skcipher 
> *crypto_spawn_skcipher(
>  static inline void crypto_skcipher_set_reqsize(
>       struct crypto_skcipher *skcipher, unsigned int reqsize)
>  {
> +     BUG_ON(reqsize > SKCIPHER_MAX_REQSIZE);

Please do not add these BUG_ONs.  Instead allow this function to
fail and check for the failure in the caller.

Thanks,
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