On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 20:30, Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
>
> On big endian CPUs, the ChaCha20-based CRNG is using the wrong
> endianness for the ChaCha20 constants.
>
> This doesn't matter cryptographically, but technically it means it's not
> ChaCha20 anymore.  Fix it to always use the standard constants.
>
> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>

> ---
>
> Andrew, please consider taking this patch since the maintainer has been
> ignoring it for 4 months
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200916045013.142179-1-ebigg...@kernel.org/T/#u).
>
>
>  drivers/char/random.c   | 4 ++--
>  include/crypto/chacha.h | 9 +++++++--
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
> index bbc5098b1a81f..4037a1e0fb748 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/random.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/random.c
> @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static bool __init crng_init_try_arch_early(struct 
> crng_state *crng)
>
>  static void __maybe_unused crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng)
>  {
> -       memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16);
> +       chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
>         _get_random_bytes(&crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12);
>         crng_init_try_arch(crng);
>         crng->init_time = jiffies - CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL - 1;
> @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static void __maybe_unused 
> crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng)
>
>  static void __init crng_initialize_primary(struct crng_state *crng)
>  {
> -       memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16);
> +       chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
>         _extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0);
>         if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu) {
>                 invalidate_batched_entropy();
> diff --git a/include/crypto/chacha.h b/include/crypto/chacha.h
> index 3a1c72fdb7cf5..dabaee6987186 100644
> --- a/include/crypto/chacha.h
> +++ b/include/crypto/chacha.h
> @@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ static inline void hchacha_block(const u32 *state, u32 
> *out, int nrounds)
>                 hchacha_block_generic(state, out, nrounds);
>  }
>
> -void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv);
> -static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 
> *iv)
> +static inline void chacha_init_consts(u32 *state)
>  {
>         state[0]  = 0x61707865; /* "expa" */
>         state[1]  = 0x3320646e; /* "nd 3" */
>         state[2]  = 0x79622d32; /* "2-by" */
>         state[3]  = 0x6b206574; /* "te k" */
> +}
> +
> +void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv);
> +static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 
> *iv)
> +{
> +       chacha_init_consts(state);
>         state[4]  = key[0];
>         state[5]  = key[1];
>         state[6]  = key[2];
> --
> 2.30.0
>

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