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Commit bd955a4e authored by Stefan Berger's avatar Stefan Berger Committed by Herbert Xu
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crypto: ecdh - Pass private key in proper byte order to check valid key


ecc_is_key_valid expects a key with the most significant digit in the last
entry of the digit array. Currently ecdh_set_secret passes a reversed key
to ecc_is_key_valid that then passes the rather simple test checking
whether the private key is in range [2, n-3]. For all current ecdh-
supported curves (NIST P192/256/384) the 'n' parameter is a rather large
number, therefore easily passing this test.

Throughout the ecdh and ecc codebase the variable 'priv' is used for a
private_key holding the bytes in proper byte order. Therefore, introduce
priv in ecdh_set_secret and copy the bytes from ctx->private_key into
priv in proper byte order by using ecc_swap_digits. Pass priv to
ecc_is_valid_key.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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