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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Samuel Neves <sneves@dei.uc.pt>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@gmail.com>,
	Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 09/20] zinc: Poly1305 ARM and ARM64 implementations
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:17:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9r_qbbYo=sxOvUauXDetJ3uA2A=WdpvjzQwMgqYF3=h1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180918225552.GA74746@gmail.com>

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:55 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> This will compute the wrong digest if called with simd_context=HAVE_FULL_SIMD
> and then later with simd_context=HAVE_NO_SIMD, since poly1305_blocks_neon()
> converts the accumulator from base 32 to base 26, whereas poly1305_blocks_arm()
> assumes it is still in base 32.  Is that intentional?  I'm sure this is a rare
> case, but my understanding is that the existing crypto API doesn't preclude
> calling successive steps in different contexts.  And I'm concerned that it could
> be relevant in some cases, e.g. especially if people are importing a hash state
> that was exported earlier.  Handling it by silently computing the wrong digest
> is not a great idea...

Indeed you're right; Samuel and I were just discussing that recently.
I'd rather handle this correctly even if the contexts change, so I'll
see if I can fix this up properly for that unlikely case in the next
revision.

Jason

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jason@zx2c4.com (Jason A. Donenfeld)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v5 09/20] zinc: Poly1305 ARM and ARM64 implementations
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:17:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9r_qbbYo=sxOvUauXDetJ3uA2A=WdpvjzQwMgqYF3=h1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180918225552.GA74746@gmail.com>

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:55 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> This will compute the wrong digest if called with simd_context=HAVE_FULL_SIMD
> and then later with simd_context=HAVE_NO_SIMD, since poly1305_blocks_neon()
> converts the accumulator from base 32 to base 26, whereas poly1305_blocks_arm()
> assumes it is still in base 32.  Is that intentional?  I'm sure this is a rare
> case, but my understanding is that the existing crypto API doesn't preclude
> calling successive steps in different contexts.  And I'm concerned that it could
> be relevant in some cases, e.g. especially if people are importing a hash state
> that was exported earlier.  Handling it by silently computing the wrong digest
> is not a great idea...

Indeed you're right; Samuel and I were just discussing that recently.
I'd rather handle this correctly even if the contexts change, so I'll
see if I can fix this up properly for that unlikely case in the next
revision.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-19  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-18 16:16 [PATCH net-next v5 00/20] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 01/20] asm: simd context helper API Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 02/20] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-20 15:41   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-20 15:41     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-20 16:01     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-20 16:01       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-20 16:02     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-20 16:02       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-21  0:11       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-21  3:12         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-09-21  3:16           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-21  3:23           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-21  4:15             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-21  4:30               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-21  4:32                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-21  4:52                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-22 16:11         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-22 16:11           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-25  7:18           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-25  7:18             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-25 14:29             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-21  0:17     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-25 10:25   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-25 10:25     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-25 14:44     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 03/20] zinc: ChaCha20 generic C implementation and selftest Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  1:08   ` Eric Biggers
2018-09-19  2:02     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 04/20] zinc: ChaCha20 x86_64 implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 22:29   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-19  2:14     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  6:13       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-19 11:33         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 05/20] zinc: ChaCha20 ARM and ARM64 implementations Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 06/20] zinc: ChaCha20 MIPS32r2 implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 20:25   ` Paul Burton
2018-09-20 13:19     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 07/20] zinc: Poly1305 generic C implementations and selftest Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  0:50   ` Eric Biggers
2018-09-19  1:35     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  4:13       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-19 11:50         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19 12:26           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  1:39     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  1:41       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 08/20] zinc: Poly1305 x86_64 implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 09/20] zinc: Poly1305 ARM and ARM64 implementations Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 22:55   ` Eric Biggers
2018-09-18 22:55     ` Eric Biggers
2018-09-19  0:17     ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2018-09-19  0:17       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 10/20] zinc: Poly1305 MIPS32r2 and MIPS64 implementations Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 11/20] zinc: ChaCha20Poly1305 construction and selftest Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 12/20] zinc: BLAKE2s generic C implementation " Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19  0:41   ` Eric Biggers
2018-09-19  0:45     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 13/20] zinc: BLAKE2s x86_64 implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 14/20] zinc: Curve25519 generic C implementations and selftest Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 15/20] zinc: Curve25519 x86_64 implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 16/20] zinc: Curve25519 ARM implementation Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 17/20] crypto: port Poly1305 to Zinc Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 18/20] crypto: port ChaCha20 " Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 19/20] security/keys: rewrite big_key crypto to use Zinc Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v5 20/20] net: WireGuard secure network tunnel Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 23:34   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-09-19  2:04     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19 12:38       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-09-18 17:01 ` [PATCH net-next v5 19/20] security/keys: rewrite big_key crypto to use Zinc David Howells
2018-09-18 17:12   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 18:28 ` [PATCH net-next v5 00/20] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-18 18:28   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-18 21:01   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-18 21:01     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-09-19 17:21     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-19 17:21       ` Ard Biesheuvel

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