Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecc - Fix off-by-one missing to clear most significant digit

From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote
Date: Fri Jun 14 2024 - 02:17:54 EST


Tested with the proposed patch and issue is fixed.


Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

Venkat.

On 14/06/24 3:08 am, Stefan Berger wrote:
Fix an off-by-one error where the most significant digit was not
initialized leading to signature verification failures by the testmgr.

Example: If a curve requires ndigits (=9) and diff (=2) indicates that
2 digits need to be set to zero then start with digit 'ndigits - diff' (=7)
and clear 'diff' digits starting from there, so 7 and 8.

Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/619bc2de-b18a-4939-a652-9ca886bf6349@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m045d8812409ce233c17fcdb8b88b6629c671f9f4
Fixes: 2fd2a82ccbfc ("crypto: ecdsa - Use ecc_digits_from_bytes to create hash digits array")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/ecc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/ecc.c b/crypto/ecc.c
index fe761256e335..dd48d9928a21 100644
--- a/crypto/ecc.c
+++ b/crypto/ecc.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void ecc_digits_from_bytes(const u8 *in, unsigned int nbytes,
/* diff > 0: not enough input bytes: set most significant digits to 0 */
if (diff > 0) {
ndigits -= diff;
- memset(&out[ndigits - 1], 0, diff * sizeof(u64));
+ memset(&out[ndigits], 0, diff * sizeof(u64));
}
if (o) {