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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: fix derivation of SipHash keys on big endian CPUs
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2021 00:29:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLsn0cws61VUrawv@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210527225525.2365513-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:55:25PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> 
> Typically, the cryptographic APIs that fscrypt uses take keys as byte
> arrays, which avoids endianness issues.  However, siphash_key_t is an
> exception.  It is defined as 'u64 key[2];', i.e. the 128-bit key is
> expected to be given directly as two 64-bit words in CPU endianness.
> 
> fscrypt_derive_dirhash_key() forgot to take this into account.
> Therefore, the SipHash keys used to index encrypted+casefolded
> directories differ on big endian vs. little endian platforms.
> This makes such directories non-portable between these platforms.
> 
> Fix this by always using the little endian order.  This is a breaking
> change for big endian platforms, but this should be fine in practice
> since the encrypt+casefold support isn't known to actually be used on
> any big endian platforms yet.
> 
> Fixes: aa408f835d02 ("fscrypt: derive dirhash key for casefolded directories")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.6+
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>  fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

I missed that fscrypt_setup_iv_ino_lblk_32_key() has the same bug too.
I'll send out a new patch which fixes both of these...

- Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-05  7:29 UTC|newest]

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2021-05-27 22:55 [PATCH] fscrypt: fix derivation of SipHash keys on big endian CPUs Eric Biggers
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