[PATCH 1/2] crypto: arm64/aes - don't use IV buffer to return final keystream block

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Feb 3 02:22:35 PST 2017


On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:38:55AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The arm64 bit sliced AES core code uses the IV buffer to pass the final
> keystream block back to the glue code if the input is not a multiple of
> the block size, so that the asm code does not have to deal with anything
> except 16 byte blocks. This is done under the assumption that the outgoing
> IV is meaningless anyway in this case, given that chaining is no longer
> possible under these circumstances.
> 
> However, as it turns out, the CCM driver does expect the IV to retain
> a value that is equal to the original IV except for the counter value,
> and even interprets byte zero as a length indicator, which may result
> in memory corruption if the IV is overwritten with something else.
> 
> So use a separate buffer to return the final keystream block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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