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

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho at tycho.ws):
> 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
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