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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:43:06 +0100
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
Scott Bauer <sbauer@....utah.edu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function
Hi Eric,
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think you can really do load_unaligned_zeropad() without first
> checking for 'left != 0'. The fixup section for load_unaligned_zeropad()
> assumes that rounding the pointer down to a word boundary will produce an
> address from which an 'unsigned long' can be loaded. But if 'left = 0' and we
> happen to be on a page boundary with the next page unmapped, then this will not
> be true and the second load will still fault.
Excellent point. I haven't been able to trigger this in my
experiments, but it doesn't look like there's much to prevent this
from happening. I'll submit a v4 with this as fixed, since there
hasn't been any other code quality issues.
Jason
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