Re: [PATCH 1/8] crypto: chacha-generic - fix use as arm64 no-NEON fallback

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On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 06:15, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The arm64 implementations of ChaCha and XChaCha are failing the extra
> crypto self-tests following my patches to test the !may_use_simd() code
> paths, which previously were untested.  The problem is as follows:
>
> When !may_use_simd(), the arm64 NEON implementations fall back to the
> generic implementation, which uses the skcipher_walk API to iterate
> through the src/dst scatterlists.  Due to how the skcipher_walk API
> works, walk.stride is set from the skcipher_alg actually being used,
> which in this case is the arm64 NEON algorithm.  Thus walk.stride is
> 5*CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE, not CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE.
>
> This unnecessarily large stride shouldn't cause an actual problem.
> However, the generic implementation computes round_down(nbytes,
> walk.stride).  round_down() assumes the round amount is a power of 2,
> which 5*CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE is not, so it gives the wrong result.
>
> This causes the following case in skcipher_walk_done() to be hit,
> causing a WARN() and failing the encryption operation:
>
>         if (WARN_ON(err)) {
>                 /* unexpected case; didn't process all bytes */
>                 err = -EINVAL;
>                 goto finish;
>         }
>
> Fix it by rounding down to CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE instead of walk.stride.
>
> (Or we could replace round_down() with rounddown(), but that would add a
> slow division operation every time, which I think we should avoid.)
>
> Fixes: 2fe55987b262 ("crypto: arm64/chacha - use combined SIMD/ALU routine for more speed")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.0+
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  crypto/chacha_generic.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/chacha_generic.c b/crypto/chacha_generic.c
> index 35b583101f4f..90ec0ec1b4f7 100644
> --- a/crypto/chacha_generic.c
> +++ b/crypto/chacha_generic.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int chacha_stream_xor(struct skcipher_request *req,
>                 unsigned int nbytes = walk.nbytes;
>
>                 if (nbytes < walk.total)
> -                       nbytes = round_down(nbytes, walk.stride);
> +                       nbytes = round_down(nbytes, CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE);
>
>                 chacha_docrypt(state, walk.dst.virt.addr, walk.src.virt.addr,
>                                nbytes, ctx->nrounds);
> --
> 2.21.0
>



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