2023-09-25 11:14:51

by Gaurav Jain

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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam/jr - fix Chacha20 + Poly1305 self test failure

Hi Kamlesh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kamlesh Gurudasani <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2023 12:47 PM
> To: Gaurav Jain <[email protected]>; Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> Cc: Horia Geanta <[email protected]>; Pankaj Gupta
> <[email protected]>; Varun Sethi <[email protected]>; Meenakshi
> Aggarwal <[email protected]>; Herbert Xu
> <[email protected]>; David S . Miller <[email protected]>;
> Aisheng Dong <[email protected]>; Silvano Di Ninno
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam/jr - fix Chacha20 +
> Poly1305 self test failure
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> Gaurav Jain <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Eric
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:11 AM
> >> To: Gaurav Jain <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Horia Geanta <[email protected]>; Pankaj Gupta
> >> <[email protected]>; Varun Sethi <[email protected]>; Meenakshi
> >> Aggarwal <[email protected]>; Herbert Xu
> >> <[email protected]>; David S . Miller
> >> <[email protected]>; Aisheng Dong <[email protected]>; Silvano
> >> Di Ninno <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> >> linux- [email protected]; dl-linux-imx <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam/jr - fix Chacha20 + Poly1305
> >> self test failure
> >>
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> >> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 06:12:37PM +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> >> > key buffer is not copied in chachapoly_setkey function, results in
> >> > wrong output for encryption/decryption operation.
> >> >
> >> > fix this by memcpy the key in caam_ctx key arrary
> Not sure, but do you mean array*?
>
> >> >
> >> > Fixes: d6bbd4eea243 ("crypto: caam/jr - add support for Chacha20 +
> >> > Poly1305")
> >> > Signed-off-by: Gaurav Jain <[email protected]>
> >> > ---
> >> > drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 3 ++-
> >> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c
> >> > b/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c index eba2d750c3b0..066f08a3a040
> >> > 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c
> >> > @@ -575,7 +575,8 @@ static int chachapoly_setkey(struct crypto_aead
> >> > *aead,
> >> const u8 *key,
> >> > if (keylen != CHACHA_KEY_SIZE + saltlen)
> >> > return -EINVAL;
> >> >
> >> > - ctx->cdata.key_virt = key;
> >> > + memcpy(ctx->key, key, keylen);
> >> > + ctx->cdata.key_virt = ctx->key;
> >> > ctx->cdata.keylen = keylen - saltlen;
> >> >
> >>
> >> Huh, so this driver just ignored the key? Is anyone using the
> >> ChaCha20Poly1305 support in this driver? Based on this bug existing,
> >> that seems unlikely. If that's the case, wouldn't it be better just
> >> to remove the ChaCha20Poly1305 support from this driver so that the code
> doesn't need to be maintained?
> >
> > This algorithm is used in IPSEC and we are also going to use
> ChaCha20Poly1305 support for Kernel TLS.
> > Gaurav
> Does this mean IPSEC doesn't call setkey() or the key value was such that it didn't
> affect even after failing to actually set the key?
Our test passed with older kernel versions, This issue was caught in testing with the latest kernel version only.

Regards
Gaurav
>
> -Kamlesh