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

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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:59:25 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jarkko@...nel.org,
	Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecc - Fix off-by-one missing to clear most
 significant digit

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 05:38:20PM -0400, 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@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/619bc2de-b18a-4939-a652-9ca886bf6349@linux.ibm.com/T/#m045d8812409ce233c17fcdb8b88b6629c671f9f4
> Fixes: 2fd2a82ccbfc ("crypto: ecdsa - Use ecc_digits_from_bytes to create hash digits array")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  crypto/ecc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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