Re: [PATCH] fix out of bound read in __test_aead()

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 09:26:50 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:10:09PM +0100, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> __test_aead() reads MAX_IVLEN bytes from template[i].iv, but the
> actual length of the initialisation vector can be shorter.
> The length of the IV is already calculated earlier in the
> function. Let's just reuses that.
> This fix an out-of-bound error detected by KASan.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch creates a new warning that iv_len may be uninitialised.

Please fix this and resubmit.

Thanks,
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