[PATCH] ARM: crypto: update NEON AES module to latest OpenSSL version

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Mon Mar 2 02:19:18 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:22:05AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This updates the bit sliced AES module to the latest version in the
> upstream OpenSSL repository (e620e5ae37bc). This is needed to fix a
> bug in the XTS decryption path, where data chunked in a certain way
> could trigger the ciphertext stealing code, which is not supposed to
> be active in the kernel build (The kernel implementation of XTS only
> supports round multiples of the AES block size of 16 bytes, whereas
> the conformant OpenSSL implementation of XTS supports inputs of
> arbitrary size by applying ciphertext stealing). This is fixed in
> the upstream version by adding the missing #ifndef XTS_CHAIN_TWEAK
> around the offending instructions.
> 
> The upstream code also contains the change applied by Russell to
> build the code unconditionally, i.e., even if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 7,
> but implemented slightly differently.
> 
> Fixes: e4e7f10bfc40 ("ARM: add support for bit sliced AES using NEON instructions")
> Reported-by: Adrian Kotelba <adrian.kotelba at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Patch applied with cc to stable.
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