[PATCH 2/2] lib/crypto: mips/chacha: Handle lengths of 2 GiB or more

Vladimir Kukharenko via B4 Relay devnull+vladimir.genproof.com at kernel.org
Wed Oct 14 13:34:22 PDT 2026


From: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir at genproof.com>

The MIPS ChaCha assembly, which is chacha_crypt_arch() itself, tests
the remaining length with signed branches, so for 2 GiB + 64 bytes or
more it takes the final partial block path too early and processes less
than requested.  It is only used on 32-bit kernels, where size_t is 32
bits, so declaring the length as size_t does not avoid this.  No
in-tree caller passes such lengths.

The partial block code also keeps the remaining length as a negative
value, so instead of changing the assembly, rename it to
chacha_crypt_mips() and add a C chacha_crypt_arch() that passes it at
most 1 GiB per call.

Tested in QEMU user mode: with a length of 0xfffff045 the assembly
processed about 4 KiB and advanced the block counter by 64; with the
same 1 GiB loop in C, a 1.25 GiB + 4101 byte buffer matches a C
reference.  An LLM review of this code found the bug.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir at genproof.com>
---
 lib/crypto/mips/chacha-core.S |  8 ++++----
 lib/crypto/mips/chacha.h      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crypto/mips/chacha-core.S b/lib/crypto/mips/chacha-core.S
index 706aeb850fb0..1a2253d91af7 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/mips/chacha-core.S
+++ b/lib/crypto/mips/chacha-core.S
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ CONCAT3(.Lchacha_mips_xor_aligned_, PLUS_ONE(x), _b: ;) \
 .text
 .set	reorder
 .set	noat
-.globl	chacha_crypt_arch
-.ent	chacha_crypt_arch
-chacha_crypt_arch:
+.globl	chacha_crypt_mips
+.ent	chacha_crypt_mips
+chacha_crypt_mips:
 	.frame	$sp, STACK_SIZE, $ra
 
 	/* Load number of rounds */
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ chacha_crypt_arch:
 
 	/* Jump table */
 	FOR_EACH_WORD(JMPTBL_UNALIGNED)
-.end chacha_crypt_arch
+.end chacha_crypt_mips
 .set at
 
 /* Input arguments
diff --git a/lib/crypto/mips/chacha.h b/lib/crypto/mips/chacha.h
index 5a565d0a8c26..15b39c744c28 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/mips/chacha.h
+++ b/lib/crypto/mips/chacha.h
@@ -6,8 +6,26 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
 
-asmlinkage void chacha_crypt_arch(struct chacha_state *state, u8 *dst,
+asmlinkage void chacha_crypt_mips(struct chacha_state *state, u8 *dst,
 				  const u8 *src, size_t bytes, int nrounds);
 asmlinkage void hchacha_block_arch(const struct chacha_state *state,
 				   u32 out[HCHACHA_OUT_WORDS], int nrounds);
+
+static void chacha_crypt_arch(struct chacha_state *state, u8 *dst,
+			      const u8 *src, size_t bytes, int nrounds)
+{
+	/*
+	 * chacha_crypt_mips() compares the length as a signed value, so pass
+	 * it at most 1 GiB at a time.
+	 */
+	do {
+		size_t todo = min(bytes, SZ_1G);
+
+		chacha_crypt_mips(state, dst, src, todo, nrounds);
+		bytes -= todo;
+		src += todo;
+		dst += todo;
+	} while (bytes);
+}

-- 
2.43.0





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