* [PATCH] lib/crypto: gf128hash: Hide selection mask values from compilers
@ 2026-10-31 5:21 Eric Biggers
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2026-10-31 5:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-crypto
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, Jason A . Donenfeld, Herbert Xu, Eric Biggers
Hide selection mask values from compilers, so that they cannot see that
they are used to select between two values and potentially generate a
secret-dependent branch. This is not known to be happening here, but we
might as well be extra careful.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
lib/crypto/gf128hash.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/crypto/gf128hash.c b/lib/crypto/gf128hash.c
index 8dcdf5ec98be..5b8ae98cafed 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/gf128hash.c
+++ b/lib/crypto/gf128hash.c
@@ -88,10 +88,18 @@ static void clmul64(u64 a, u64 b, u64 *out_lo, u64 *out_hi)
(a2 * (u128)b1) ^ (a3 * (u128)b0);
/* Multiply the low 4 bits of @a by @b. */
- u64 e0 = -(a & 1) & b;
- u64 e1 = -((a >> 1) & 1) & b;
- u64 e2 = -((a >> 2) & 1) & b;
- u64 e3 = -((a >> 3) & 1) & b;
+ u64 e0 = -(a & 1);
+ u64 e1 = -((a >> 1) & 1);
+ u64 e2 = -((a >> 2) & 1);
+ u64 e3 = -((a >> 3) & 1);
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(e0);
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(e1);
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(e2);
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(e3);
+ e0 &= b;
+ e1 &= b;
+ e2 &= b;
+ e3 &= b;
u64 extra_lo = e0 ^ (e1 << 1) ^ (e2 << 2) ^ (e3 << 3);
u64 extra_hi = (e1 >> 63) ^ (e2 >> 62) ^ (e3 >> 61);
@@ -245,6 +253,7 @@ static void __maybe_unused ghash_key_to_polyval(const u8 in[GHASH_BLOCK_SIZE],
u64 lo = get_unaligned_be64(&in[8]);
u64 mask = (s64)hi >> 63;
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(mask);
hi = (hi << 1) ^ (lo >> 63) ^ (mask & ((u64)0xc2 << 56));
lo = (lo << 1) ^ (mask & 1);
out->lo = cpu_to_le64(lo);
base-commit: 2a500a04d6f969318c05f46aedb6e73fc1963a00
--
2.56.0
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