[PATCH 5/9] crypto: atmel-aes: Add NIST 800-38A's zero length cryptlen constraint

Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus at microchip.com
Tue Jul 20 01:55:31 PDT 2021


NIST 800-38A requires for the ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB and CTR modes that
the plaintext and ciphertext to have a positive integer length.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus at microchip.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c
index 4e9515e8dd25..8ea873bf6b86 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c
@@ -1094,6 +1094,13 @@ static int atmel_aes_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req, unsigned long mode)
 	if (opmode == AES_FLAGS_XTS && req->cryptlen < XTS_BLOCK_SIZE)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB or CTR mode require the plaintext and ciphertext
+	 * to have a positve integer length.
+	 */
+	if (!req->cryptlen && opmode != AES_FLAGS_XTS)
+		return 0;
+
 	if ((opmode == AES_FLAGS_ECB || opmode == AES_FLAGS_CBC) &&
 	    !IS_ALIGNED(req->cryptlen, crypto_skcipher_blocksize(skcipher)))
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.25.1




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