[PATCH 3/5] lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Fix 32-bit length treated as 64-bit

Vladimir Kukharenko via B4 Relay devnull+vladimir.genproof.com at kernel.org
Mon Oct 12 14:31:20 PDT 2026


From: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir at genproof.com>

The C code declares the length argument of poly1305_blocks_arm64() and
poly1305_blocks_neon() as u32, but the assembly, which comes from
OpenSSL/CRYPTOGAMS where the length is a size_t, reads it from the
64-bit register x2.  The arm64 ABI leaves the upper 32 bits of a 32-bit
argument unspecified, and gcc and clang don't zero-extend it.  In
practice the upper bits are zero in the current callers, so I don't
know of a failure.

Declare the length as size_t, as OpenSSL and the x86_64 code do, rather
than changing the imported assembly.  The assembly also reads hibit from
x3, but the callers always pass the constant 0 or 1.

This has been the case since commit f569ca164751 ("crypto:
arm64/poly1305 - incorporate OpenSSL/CRYPTOGAMS NEON implementation").

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir at genproof.com>
---
 lib/crypto/arm64/poly1305.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crypto/arm64/poly1305.h b/lib/crypto/arm64/poly1305.h
index 3d4bde857699..205a7b5fcf47 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/arm64/poly1305.h
+++ b/lib/crypto/arm64/poly1305.h
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 asmlinkage void poly1305_block_init(struct poly1305_block_state *state,
 				    const u8 raw_key[POLY1305_BLOCK_SIZE]);
 asmlinkage void poly1305_blocks_arm64(struct poly1305_block_state *state,
-				      const u8 *src, u32 len, u32 hibit);
+				      const u8 *src, size_t len, u32 hibit);
 asmlinkage void poly1305_blocks_neon(struct poly1305_block_state *state,
-				     const u8 *src, u32 len, u32 hibit);
+				     const u8 *src, size_t len, u32 hibit);
 asmlinkage void poly1305_emit(const struct poly1305_state *state,
 			      u8 digest[POLY1305_DIGEST_SIZE],
 			      const u32 nonce[4]);

-- 
2.43.0





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