Re: [PATCH 1/3] big key: get rid of stack array allocation

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 15:58:55 EST


Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho@xxxxxxxx):
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:46:38PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > > > > + if (unlikely(crypto_aead_ivsize(big_key_aead) != GCM_AES_IV_SIZE)) {
> > > > > + WARN(1, "big key algorithm changed?");
> >
> > Please avoid using WARN() WARN_ON() etc.
> > syzbot would catch it and panic() due to panic_on_warn == 1.
>
> But it is really a programming bug in this case (and it seems better
> than BUG()...). Isn't this exactly the sort of case we want to catch?
>
> Tycho

Right - is there a url to some discussion about this? Because not
using WARN when WARN should be used, because it troubles a bot, seems
the wrong solution. If this *is* what's been agreed upon, then
what is the new recommended thing to do here?

-serge