* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] lib/crypto: mips: Disable Octeon SHA code on little-endian kernels" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
@ 2026-11-10 1:10 Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2026-11-10 1:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ebiggers, ardb; +Cc: stable
The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x dd2a4edb26e1c78823c50ba10c42f2d3de2e5ec4
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261109201025-failed-6.6-dd2a4edb26e1@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
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From dd2a4edb26e1c78823c50ba10c42f2d3de2e5ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:44:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] lib/crypto: mips: Disable Octeon SHA code on little-endian
kernels
Kernels built for the MIPS64-based Cavium Octeon SoCs are normally
big-endian, but little-endian builds are also supported. Currently, the
SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 code using the Octeon crypto co-processor is
enabled in both builds.
This code is untestable without the hardware. However, based on the
code itself, it is implausible that it computes hash values correctly in
little-endian builds. Such builds write many incorrect values to COP2:
- SHA-1 and SHA-256: The 64-bit integer that contains the last two
32-bit message words of each block is written to COP2 entirely
byte-reflected, due to missing endianness conversion in
octeon_sha1_start() and octeon_sha256_start() to compensate for
using native 64-bit loads from the message bytes. This differs from
all the earlier message words which are written correctly.
Furthermore, the state is written to COP2 with each 32-bit word
byte-reflected within each 64-bit integer, due to incorrect use of
64-bit endianness conversion in write_octeon_64bit_hash_dword() when
the state is kept in memory in native-endian 32-bit words.
- SHA-512: All the 64-bit message words are written to COP2
byte-reflected, due to missing endianness conversion in
write_octeon_64bit_block_sha512() and octeon_sha512_start(). The
SHA-512 state words seem to be written correctly.
Big-endian kernels aren't affected by these bugs. These bugs also
aren't new; this code has been broken on little-endian ever since it and
Octeon little-endian support were first added in v4.1.
Commit d2a948d2db68 ("MIPS: Octeon: Make octeon-md5 driver
endian-agnostic") made the MD5 code work on little-endian kernels by
adding 64-bit endianness conversions to the COP2 macros used by MD5
(some of which are shared by SHA-1 and SHA-256, despite those algorithms
keeping the state words in native-endian instead of MD5's little-endian,
causing some of the strange behavior described above). However, SHA-1,
SHA-256, and SHA-512 were never fixed to work on little-endian kernels.
Therefore, disable the Octeon SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 code in
little-endian kernels. This causes the generic code that actually
computes hash values correctly to be used instead.
Fixes: 82be2dcfa6a1 ("crypto: octeon - add SHA1 module")
Fixes: c3d0def62001 ("crypto: octeon - add SHA256 module")
Fixes: fbaa4dfd51a0 ("crypto: octeon - add SHA512 module")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261022054450.20746-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
lib/crypto/Kconfig | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/crypto/Kconfig b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
index 56f308dd02731..83b4a211c15d6 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ config CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1_ARCH
depends on CRYPTO_LIB_SHA1 && !UML
default y if ARM
default y if ARM64
- default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
+ default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
default y if PPC
default y if S390
default y if SPARC64
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ config CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256_ARCH
depends on CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 && !UML
default y if ARM && !CPU_V7M
default y if ARM64
- default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
+ default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
default y if PPC && SPE
default y if RISCV && 64BIT && TOOLCHAIN_HAS_VECTOR_CRYPTO && \
RISCV_EFFICIENT_VECTOR_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ config CRYPTO_LIB_SHA512_ARCH
depends on CRYPTO_LIB_SHA512 && !UML
default y if ARM && !CPU_V7M
default y if ARM64
- default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
+ default y if MIPS && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
default y if RISCV && 64BIT && TOOLCHAIN_HAS_VECTOR_CRYPTO && \
RISCV_EFFICIENT_VECTOR_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
default y if S390
--
2.53.0
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