From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> On big endian CPUs, the ChaCha20-based CRNG is using the wrong endianness for the ChaCha20 constants.
This doesn't matter cryptographically, but technically it means it's not ChaCha20 anymore. Fix it to always use the standard constants. Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> --- Andrew, please consider taking this patch since the maintainer has been ignoring it for 4 months (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200916045013.142179-1-ebigg...@kernel.org/T/#u). drivers/char/random.c | 4 ++-- include/crypto/chacha.h | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index bbc5098b1a81f..4037a1e0fb748 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static bool __init crng_init_try_arch_early(struct crng_state *crng) static void __maybe_unused crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng) { - memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16); + chacha_init_consts(crng->state); _get_random_bytes(&crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12); crng_init_try_arch(crng); crng->init_time = jiffies - CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL - 1; @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static void __maybe_unused crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng) static void __init crng_initialize_primary(struct crng_state *crng) { - memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16); + chacha_init_consts(crng->state); _extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0); if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu) { invalidate_batched_entropy(); diff --git a/include/crypto/chacha.h b/include/crypto/chacha.h index 3a1c72fdb7cf5..dabaee6987186 100644 --- a/include/crypto/chacha.h +++ b/include/crypto/chacha.h @@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ static inline void hchacha_block(const u32 *state, u32 *out, int nrounds) hchacha_block_generic(state, out, nrounds); } -void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv); -static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv) +static inline void chacha_init_consts(u32 *state) { state[0] = 0x61707865; /* "expa" */ state[1] = 0x3320646e; /* "nd 3" */ state[2] = 0x79622d32; /* "2-by" */ state[3] = 0x6b206574; /* "te k" */ +} + +void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv); +static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv) +{ + chacha_init_consts(state); state[4] = key[0]; state[5] = key[1]; state[6] = key[2]; -- 2.30.0
