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<title>linux.git/crypto/ecc.c, branch v7.3-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>crypto: ecc - Optimize vli additive operations using compiler builtins</title>
<updated>2026-07-05T05:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Blatter</name>
<email>fabianblatter09@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-07T11:24:35+00:00</published>
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Replace the software carry flag emulation with compiler builtins.

Even the newest compilers struggle with taking advantage of the
hardware carry flag. Compiler builtins allow the compiler to
much more easily achieve this while still remaining constant-time.

This yields an approximately 6-7% performance improvement
on the ecc_gen_privkey, ecc_make_pub_key and crypto_ecdh_shared_secret
functions on x86_64 on all curve sizes.

Additionally, the code becomes much more readable.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Blatter &lt;fabianblatter09@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Replace the software carry flag emulation with compiler builtins.

Even the newest compilers struggle with taking advantage of the
hardware carry flag. Compiler builtins allow the compiler to
much more easily achieve this while still remaining constant-time.

This yields an approximately 6-7% performance improvement
on the ecc_gen_privkey, ecc_make_pub_key and crypto_ecdh_shared_secret
functions on x86_64 on all curve sizes.

Additionally, the code becomes much more readable.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Blatter &lt;fabianblatter09@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: ecc - Fix carry overflow in vli multiplication</title>
<updated>2026-05-22T12:25:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anastasia Tishchenko</name>
<email>sv3iry@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-13T10:57:40+00:00</published>
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The carry flag calculation fails when r01.m_high is saturated
(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) and addition of lower bits overflows.

The condition (r01.m_high &lt; 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 &lt;sv3iry@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The carry flag calculation fails when r01.m_high is saturated
(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) and addition of lower bits overflows.

The condition (r01.m_high &lt; 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 &lt;sv3iry@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: ecc - Use crypto_stdrng_get_bytes()</title>
<updated>2026-04-03T00:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T00:14:59+00:00</published>
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Replace the sequence of crypto_get_default_rng(),
crypto_rng_get_bytes(), and crypto_put_default_rng() with the equivalent
helper function crypto_stdrng_get_bytes().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Replace the sequence of crypto_get_default_rng(),
crypto_rng_get_bytes(), and crypto_put_default_rng() with the equivalent
helper function crypto_stdrng_get_bytes().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: ecc - Streamline alloc_point and remove {alloc,free}_digits_space</title>
<updated>2026-01-23T05:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-05T22:21:53+00:00</published>
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Check 'ndigits' before allocating 'struct ecc_point' to return early if
needed. Inline the code from and remove ecc_alloc_digits_space() and
ecc_free_digits_space(), respectively.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Check 'ndigits' before allocating 'struct ecc_point' to return early if
needed. Inline the code from and remove ecc_alloc_digits_space() and
ecc_free_digits_space(), respectively.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP()</title>
<updated>2025-02-09T10:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-02T19:00:52+00:00</published>
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Herbert notes that DIV_ROUND_UP() may overflow unnecessarily if an ecdsa
implementation's -&gt;key_size() callback returns an unusually large value.
Herbert instead suggests (for a division by 8):

  X / 8 + !!(X &amp; 7)

Based on this formula, introduce a generic DIV_ROUND_UP_POW2() macro and
use it in lieu of DIV_ROUND_UP() for -&gt;key_size() return values.

Additionally, use the macro in ecc_digits_from_bytes(), whose "nbytes"
parameter is a -&gt;key_size() return value in some instances, or a
user-specified ASN.1 length in the case of ecdsa_get_signature_rs().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z3iElsILmoSu6FuC@gondor.apana.org.au/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Herbert notes that DIV_ROUND_UP() may overflow unnecessarily if an ecdsa
implementation's -&gt;key_size() callback returns an unusually large value.
Herbert instead suggests (for a division by 8):

  X / 8 + !!(X &amp; 7)

Based on this formula, introduce a generic DIV_ROUND_UP_POW2() macro and
use it in lieu of DIV_ROUND_UP() for -&gt;key_size() return values.

Additionally, use the macro in ecc_digits_from_bytes(), whose "nbytes"
parameter is a -&gt;key_size() return value in some instances, or a
user-specified ASN.1 length in the case of ecdsa_get_signature_rs().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z3iElsILmoSu6FuC@gondor.apana.org.au/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

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for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: ecc - Fix off-by-one missing to clear most significant digit</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T05:41:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Berger</name>
<email>stefanb@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-13T21:38:20+00:00</published>
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Fix an off-by-one error where the most significant digit was not
initialized leading to signature verification failures by the testmgr.

Example: If a curve requires ndigits (=9) and diff (=2) indicates that
2 digits need to be set to zero then start with digit 'ndigits - diff' (=7)
and clear 'diff' digits starting from there, so 7 and 8.

Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/619bc2de-b18a-4939-a652-9ca886bf6349@linux.ibm.com/T/#m045d8812409ce233c17fcdb8b88b6629c671f9f4
Fixes: 2fd2a82ccbfc ("crypto: ecdsa - Use ecc_digits_from_bytes to create hash digits array")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Fix an off-by-one error where the most significant digit was not
initialized leading to signature verification failures by the testmgr.

Example: If a curve requires ndigits (=9) and diff (=2) indicates that
2 digits need to be set to zero then start with digit 'ndigits - diff' (=7)
and clear 'diff' digits starting from there, so 7 and 8.

Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/619bc2de-b18a-4939-a652-9ca886bf6349@linux.ibm.com/T/#m045d8812409ce233c17fcdb8b88b6629c671f9f4
Fixes: 2fd2a82ccbfc ("crypto: ecdsa - Use ecc_digits_from_bytes to create hash digits array")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros</title>
<updated>2024-05-31T09:34:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Johnson</name>
<email>quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-23T19:47:39+00:00</published>
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Fix the 'make W=1' warnings:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/cast_common.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/af_alg.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/algif_hash.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/algif_skcipher.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/ecc.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/curve25519-generic.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/xor.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/crypto_simd.o

Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson &lt;quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Fix the 'make W=1' warnings:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/cast_common.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/af_alg.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/algif_hash.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/algif_skcipher.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/ecc.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/curve25519-generic.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/xor.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in crypto/crypto_simd.o

Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson &lt;quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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