linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm64/ghash - Fix incorrect output from ghash-neon

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Message-ID: <aTivr6JtPIxFmKLS@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:24:31 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	"Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Diederik de Haas <diederik@...ow-tech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm64/ghash - Fix incorrect output from
 ghash-neon

On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:34:17PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Commit 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block
> handling") made ghash_finup() pass the wrong buffer to
> ghash_do_simd_update().  As a result, ghash-neon now produces incorrect
> outputs when the message length isn't divisible by 16 bytes.  Fix this.
> 
> (I didn't notice this earlier because this code is reached only on CPUs
> that support NEON but not PMULL.  I haven't yet found a way to get
> qemu-system-aarch64 to emulate that configuration.)
> 
> Fixes: 9a7c987fb92b ("crypto: arm64/ghash - Use API partial block handling")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Diederik de Haas <diederik@...ow-tech.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/DETXT7QI62KE.F3CGH2VWX1SC@cknow-tech.com/
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
> If it's okay, I'd like to just take this via libcrypto-fixes.
> 
>  arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for catching this!

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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