Re: [PATCH] random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 04:13:20 EST


Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/random.c | 4 ++--
> include/crypto/chacha.h | 9 +++++++--
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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