From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: cryptoapi highmem bug
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:49:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077655754.14858.0.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> (raw)
Hi,
someone noticed strange corruptions with dm-crypt and highmem. After I
found out that I could force my machine to use highmem even though it
only has 256MB, I finally found the problem after some debugging:
The problem is in cbc_process (well, partly):
> const int need_stack = (src == dst);
> u8 stack[need_stack ? crypto_tfm_alg_blocksize(tfm) : 0];
> u8 *buf = need_stack ? stack : dst;
src == dst fails if the page was in highmem because crypto_kmap will
assign two different virtual addresses for the same page.
The result is data corruption.
How could this be fixed?
scapperwalk_map could check if this page was already mapped (walk_in)
and reuse the virtual address if so. So a single page is only mapped
once and the check in cbc_process will work.
I can really use the src == dst case because I would need to allocate
unnecessary buffers (at least 512 bytes at a time and per cpu).
(I just hacked dm-crypt to allocate 512 bytes on the stack and use it
temporarily and kmap around myself to copy it back and the problem is
gone. Ugly.)
next reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 20:49 Christophe Saout [this message]
2004-02-24 22:34 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-24 23:01 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 4:32 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 13:27 ` James Morris
2004-02-25 15:17 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 21:27 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 21:41 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] move scatterwalk functions to own file Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 22:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] fix in-place de/encryption bug with highmem Christophe Saout
2004-02-26 4:13 ` James Morris
2004-02-26 11:03 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:31 ` cryptoapi highmem bug Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:51 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 15:44 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 16:13 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 16:09 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 18:11 ` cryptoapi OMAC (was: cryptoapi highmem bug) Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:59 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 21:44 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 18:15 ` cryptoapi highmem bug Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:12 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 20:39 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 20:46 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-02-25 21:36 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-25 21:52 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
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