[PATCH 1/2] lib/crypto: arm/chacha: Handle lengths of 2 GiB or more in scalar code
From: Vladimir Kukharenko via B4 Relay
Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 16:39:34 EST
From: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
chacha_doarm() compares the remaining length with signed conditions
(blt, movle/movgt, bgt), and DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE) in
chacha_crypt_arch() wraps above 0xffffffc0, so lengths of 2 GiB or
more are mishandled. size_t is 32 bits on arm, so declaring the length
as size_t does not avoid this. On a Cortex-A7, an in-place
chacha20_crypt() of 2 GiB + 4101 bytes changed only one byte.
Use unsigned conditions (blo, movls/movhi, bhi) and
DIV_ROUND_UP_POW2().
This affects the scalar code, which is used when NEON isn't usable and
always on Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A7. No in-tree caller passes such
lengths. Tested in QEMU on a Cortex-A7 with CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G. An LLM
review of this code found the bug.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kukharenko <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/crypto/arm/chacha-scalar-core.S | 8 ++++----
lib/crypto/arm/chacha.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/crypto/arm/chacha-scalar-core.S b/lib/crypto/arm/chacha-scalar-core.S
index 509b2f277b57..d9d0a8cee941 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/arm/chacha-scalar-core.S
+++ b/lib/crypto/arm/chacha-scalar-core.S
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
// Use slow path if fewer than 64 bytes remain.
cmp r11, #64
- blt .Lxor_slowpath\@
+ blo .Lxor_slowpath\@
// Use slow path if IN and/or OUT isn't 4-byte aligned. Needed even on
// ARMv6+, since ldmia and stmia (used below) still require alignment.
@@ -324,8 +324,8 @@
ldr r14, [sp, #160] // OUT
cmp r9, #64
mov r0, sp
- movle r1, r9
- movgt r1, #64
+ movls r1, r9
+ movhi r1, #64
// r1 is number of bytes to XOR, in range [1, 64]
.if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
.Lxor_slowpath_done\@:
subs r9, #64
add sp, #96
- bgt .Lprepare_for_next_block\@
+ bhi .Lprepare_for_next_block\@
.Ldone\@:
.endm // _chacha
diff --git a/lib/crypto/arm/chacha.h b/lib/crypto/arm/chacha.h
index 8ce5375f58aa..5b366f4de78d 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/arm/chacha.h
+++ b/lib/crypto/arm/chacha.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static void chacha_crypt_arch(struct chacha_state *state, u8 *dst,
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON) || !neon_usable() ||
bytes <= CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE) {
chacha_doarm(dst, src, bytes, state, nrounds);
- state->x[12] += DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE);
+ state->x[12] += DIV_ROUND_UP_POW2(bytes, CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE);
return;
}
--
2.43.0