[PATCH] dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length

[James Morris]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
> >
> > Commit 383203eff718 ("dh key: get rid of stack allocated array") changed
> > kdf_ctr() to assume that the length of key material to derive is a
> > multiple of the digest size.  The length was supposed to be rounded up
> > accordingly.  However, the round_up() macro was used which only gives
> > the correct result on power-of-2 arguments, whereas not all hash
> > algorithms have power-of-2 digest sizes.  In some cases this resulted in
> > a write past the end of the 'outbuf' buffer.
> >
> > Fix it by switching to roundup(), which works for non-power-of-2 inputs.
> 
> round_up() vs roundup(). Wow, that's not confusing. :( I wonder if we
> should rename the former to roundup_pow2() or something?

Good idea, in a separate patch(set).

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>

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