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From: Anastasia Tishchenko <sv3iry@gmail.com>
To: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Anastasia Tishchenko <sv3iry@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] crypto: ecc - Fix carry overflow in vli multiplication
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:57:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513105741.55534-1-sv3iry@gmail.com> (raw)

The carry flag calculation fails when r01.m_high is saturated
(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) and addition of lower bits overflows.

The condition (r01.m_high < product.m_high) doesn't handle the case
where r01.m_high == product.m_high and an additional carry exists
from lower-bit overflow.

When commit 3c4b23901a0c ("crypto: ecdh - Add ECDH software support")
introduced crypto/ecc.c, it split the muladd() function in the
micro-ecc library into separate mul_64_64() and add_128_128() helpers.
It seems the check got lost in translation.

Add proper handling for this boundary by accounting for the carry
from the lower addition.

Fixes: 3c4b23901a0c ("crypto: ecdh - Add ECDH software support")
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Tishchenko <sv3iry@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
* Rename add_128_128() to check_add_128_128_overflow() and let it return a bool
  indicating whether an overflow occurred
* Rewrite an explicit if-else statement using constant-time bitwise arithmetic
  to avoid a timing side-channel

Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260508114844.29694-1-sv3iry@gmail.com/
---
 crypto/ecc.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/ecc.c b/crypto/ecc.c
index 43b0def3a225..6eb4d97a5f0d 100644
--- a/crypto/ecc.c
+++ b/crypto/ecc.c
@@ -393,14 +393,26 @@ static uint128_t mul_64_64(u64 left, u64 right)
 	return result;
 }
 
-static uint128_t add_128_128(uint128_t a, uint128_t b)
+/* Calculate addition with overflow checking. Returns true on wrap-around,
+ * false otherwise.
+ */
+static bool check_add_128_128_overflow(uint128_t *result, uint128_t a,
+				       uint128_t b)
 {
-	uint128_t result;
+	bool carry;
 
-	result.m_low = a.m_low + b.m_low;
-	result.m_high = a.m_high + b.m_high + (result.m_low < a.m_low);
+	result->m_low = a.m_low + b.m_low;
+	carry = (result->m_low < a.m_low);
 
-	return result;
+	result->m_high = a.m_high + b.m_high + carry;
+
+	/* Using constant-time bitwise arithmetic to prevent timing
+	 * side-channels.
+	 */
+	carry = (result->m_high < a.m_high) |
+		((result->m_high == a.m_high) & carry);
+
+	return carry;
 }
 
 static void vli_mult(u64 *result, const u64 *left, const u64 *right,
@@ -425,9 +437,7 @@ static void vli_mult(u64 *result, const u64 *left, const u64 *right,
 			uint128_t product;
 
 			product = mul_64_64(left[i], right[k - i]);
-
-			r01 = add_128_128(r01, product);
-			r2 += (r01.m_high < product.m_high);
+			r2 += check_add_128_128_overflow(&r01, r01, product);
 		}
 
 		result[k] = r01.m_low;
@@ -450,7 +460,7 @@ static void vli_umult(u64 *result, const u64 *left, u32 right,
 		uint128_t product;
 
 		product = mul_64_64(left[k], right);
-		r01 = add_128_128(r01, product);
+		check_add_128_128_overflow(&r01, r01, product);
 		/* no carry */
 		result[k] = r01.m_low;
 		r01.m_low = r01.m_high;
@@ -487,8 +497,7 @@ static void vli_square(u64 *result, const u64 *left, unsigned int ndigits)
 				product.m_low <<= 1;
 			}
 
-			r01 = add_128_128(r01, product);
-			r2 += (r01.m_high < product.m_high);
+			r2 += check_add_128_128_overflow(&r01, r01, product);
 		}
 
 		result[k] = r01.m_low;
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-13 10:57 Anastasia Tishchenko [this message]
2026-05-13 12:39 ` [PATCH v2] crypto: ecc - Fix carry overflow in vli multiplication Qingfang Deng
2026-05-13 14:09   ` Lukas Wunner
2026-05-13 21:08   ` David Laight
2026-05-13 14:31 ` Lukas Wunner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-05-13 10:47 Anastasia Tishchenko

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