2023-09-22 17:34:37

by Kamlesh Gurudasani

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

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
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>> Aggarwal <[email protected]>; Herbert Xu
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>> 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?

-Kamlesh