random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness

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: [email protected] Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
ambv · Apr 2, 2021 · a181e0f · a181e0f
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diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -819,15 +819,15 @@ static bool __init crng_init_try_arch_early(struct crng_state *crng)
 
 static void __maybe_unused 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;
 }
 
 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) {
 		invalidate_batched_entropy();

diff --git a/include/crypto/chacha.h b/include/crypto/chacha.h
@@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ static inline void hchacha_block(const u32 *state, u32 *out, int nrounds)
 		hchacha_block_generic(state, out, nrounds);
 }
 
-void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv);
-static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv)
+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" */
+}
+
+void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv);
+static inline void chacha_init_generic(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv)
+{
+	chacha_init_consts(state);
 	state[4]  = key[0];
 	state[5]  = key[1];
 	state[6]  = key[2];