* [PATCH] crypto: atmel-ecc - avoid stale fallback key after set_secret failure
@ 2026-07-08 20:42 Thorsten Blum
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From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-07-08 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thorsten Blum, Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, Nicolas Ferre,
Alexandre Belloni, Claudiu Beznea, Tudor Ambarus
Cc: stable, linux-crypto, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Clear ->do_fallback before decoding a new ECDH secret and enable it only
after the software fallback accepts a caller-provided private key. This
avoids using a stale fallback key should crypto_kpp_set_secret() fail.
Fixes: 11105693fa05 ("crypto: atmel-ecc - introduce Microchip / Atmel ECC driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c
index 8e13aeccf011..4add3b2ddd0b 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static int atmel_ecdh_set_secret(struct crypto_kpp *tfm, const void *buf,
kfree(ctx->public_key);
ctx->public_key = NULL;
+ ctx->do_fallback = false;
if (crypto_ecdh_decode_key(buf, len, ¶ms) < 0) {
dev_err(&ctx->client->dev, "crypto_ecdh_decode_key failed\n");
@@ -89,8 +90,9 @@ static int atmel_ecdh_set_secret(struct crypto_kpp *tfm, const void *buf,
}
if (params.key_size) {
- ctx->do_fallback = true;
- return crypto_kpp_set_secret(ctx->fallback, buf, len);
+ ret = crypto_kpp_set_secret(ctx->fallback, buf, len);
+ ctx->do_fallback = !ret;
+ return ret;
}
cmd = kmalloc_obj(*cmd);
@@ -101,8 +103,6 @@ static int atmel_ecdh_set_secret(struct crypto_kpp *tfm, const void *buf,
if (!public_key)
goto free_cmd;
- ctx->do_fallback = false;
-
atmel_i2c_init_genkey_cmd(cmd, DATA_SLOT_2);
ret = atmel_i2c_send_receive(ctx->client, cmd);
base-commit: e264401ce4776a288524e5b87593d4d864147115
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