linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 089/264] random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness

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Message-Id: <20220623164346.589601245@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:41:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 089/264] random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

commit a181e0fdb2164268274453b5b291589edbb9b22d upstream.

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@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/char/random.c     |    4 ++--
 include/crypto/chacha20.h |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static bool __init crng_init_try_arch_ea
 
 static void crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng)
 {
-	memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16);
+	chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
 	_get_random_bytes(&crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12);
 	crng_init_try_arch(crng);
 	crng->init_time = jiffies - CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL - 1;
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ static void crng_initialize_secondary(st
 
 static void __init crng_initialize_primary(struct crng_state *crng)
 {
-	memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16);
+	chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
 	_extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0);
 	if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
 		invalidate_batched_entropy();
--- a/include/crypto/chacha20.h
+++ b/include/crypto/chacha20.h
@@ -24,4 +24,12 @@ int crypto_chacha20_setkey(struct crypto
 int crypto_chacha20_crypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc, struct scatterlist *dst,
 			  struct scatterlist *src, unsigned int nbytes);
 
+static inline void chacha_init_consts(u32 *state)
+{
+	state[0]  = 0x61707865; /* "expa" */
+	state[1]  = 0x3320646e; /* "nd 3" */
+	state[2]  = 0x79622d32; /* "2-by" */
+	state[3]  = 0x6b206574; /* "te k" */
+}
+
 #endif