[PATCH] lib/crypto: arm/curve25519: Disable on CPU_BIG_ENDIAN

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Nov 04 2025 - 00:51:59 EST


On big endian arm kernels, the arm optimized Curve25519 code produces
incorrect outputs and fails the Curve25519 test. This has been true
ever since this code was added.

It seems that hardly anyone (or even no one?) actually uses big endian
arm kernels. But as long as they're ostensibly supported, we should
disable this code on them so that it's not accidentally used.

Note: for future-proofing, use !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN instead of
CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN. Both of these are arch-specific options that could
get removed in the future if big endian support gets dropped.

Fixes: d8f1308a025f ("crypto: arm/curve25519 - wire up NEON implementation")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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This patch is targeting libcrypto-fixes

lib/crypto/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/crypto/Kconfig b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
index 8886055e938f..16859c6226dd 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ config CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519
of the functions from <crypto/curve25519.h>.

config CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519_ARCH
bool
depends on CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 && !UML && !KMSAN
- default y if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON
+ default y if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
default y if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
default y if X86_64

config CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519_GENERIC
bool

base-commit: 1af424b15401d2be789c4dc2279889514e7c5c94
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2.51.2