On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:08:36PM +1000, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Eric Biggers wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:14:58AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, David Howells wrote: > > > > > > > (2) Fixing big_key to use safe crypto from Jason A. Donenfeld. > > > > > > > > > > I'm concerned about the lack of crypto review mentioned by Jason -- I > > > wonder if we can get this rewrite any more review from crypto folk. > > > > > > Also, are there any tests for this code? If not, it would be good to > > > make > > > some. > > > > > > > There is a test for the big_key key type in the keyutils test suite. I also > > manually tested Jason's change. And as far as I can tell there isn't > > actually a > > whole lot to test besides adding a big_key larger than > > BIG_KEY_FILE_THRESHOLD > > bytes, reading it back, and verifying that the data is unchanged --- since > > that > > covers the code that was changed. An earlier version of the patch produced > > a > > warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y since it put the aead_request on the stack, > > but > > that's been fixed. > > > > Ok, thanks a lot. > > > It would be great if someone else would comment on the crypto too, but for > > what > > it's worth I'm satisfied with the crypto changes. GCM is a much better > > choice > > than ECB as long as we don't repeat (key, IV) pairs --- which we don't. > > And in > > any case ECB mode makes no sense in this context; you'd need a *very* good > > reason to actually choose to encrypt something with ECB mode. > > Unfortunately it > > tends to be a favorite of people who don't understand encryption modes... > > Adding Herbert.
I think Jason's patch is definitely an improvement over the status quo. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
