Commit 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") made ghash_finup() pass the wrong buffer to ghash_do_simd_update(). As a result, ghash-neon now produces incorrect outputs when the message length isn't divisible by 16 bytes. Fix this.
(I didn't notice this earlier because this code is reached only on CPUs that support NEON but not PMULL. I haven't yet found a way to get qemu-system-aarch64 to emulate that configuration.)
Fixes: 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Diederik de Haas diederik@cknow-tech.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/DETXT7QI62KE.F3CGH2VWX1SC@cknow-tech.co... Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org ---
If it's okay, I'd like to just take this via libcrypto-fixes.
arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c index 7951557a285a..ef249d06c92c 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c +++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c @@ -131,11 +131,11 @@ static int ghash_finup(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *src,
if (len) { u8 buf[GHASH_BLOCK_SIZE] = {};
memcpy(buf, src, len); - ghash_do_simd_update(1, ctx->digest, src, key, NULL, + ghash_do_simd_update(1, ctx->digest, buf, key, NULL, pmull_ghash_update_p8); memzero_explicit(buf, sizeof(buf)); } return ghash_export(desc, dst); }
base-commit: 7a3984bbd69055898add0fe22445f99435f33450
On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:34:17PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
Commit 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") made ghash_finup() pass the wrong buffer to ghash_do_simd_update(). As a result, ghash-neon now produces incorrect outputs when the message length isn't divisible by 16 bytes. Fix this.
(I didn't notice this earlier because this code is reached only on CPUs that support NEON but not PMULL. I haven't yet found a way to get qemu-system-aarch64 to emulate that configuration.)
Fixes: 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Diederik de Haas diederik@cknow-tech.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/DETXT7QI62KE.F3CGH2VWX1SC@cknow-tech.co... Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org
If it's okay, I'd like to just take this via libcrypto-fixes.
arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks for catching this!
Acked-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:34:17PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
Commit 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") made ghash_finup() pass the wrong buffer to ghash_do_simd_update(). As a result, ghash-neon now produces incorrect outputs when the message length isn't divisible by 16 bytes. Fix this.
(I didn't notice this earlier because this code is reached only on CPUs that support NEON but not PMULL. I haven't yet found a way to get qemu-system-aarch64 to emulate that configuration.)
Fixes: 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Diederik de Haas diederik@cknow-tech.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/DETXT7QI62KE.F3CGH2VWX1SC@cknow-tech.co... Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org
If it's okay, I'd like to just take this via libcrypto-fixes.
arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=li...
(As always, additional reviews/acks still appreciated!)
- Eric
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