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lib/crypto: arm/curve25519: Disable on CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tue, 4 Nov 2025 05:49:06 +0000 (21:49 -0800)
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tue, 4 Nov 2025 17:36:22 +0000 (09:36 -0800)
commit44e8241c51f762aafa50ed116da68fd6ecdcc954
tree4fe2e1a709fea0eda9c6711477227cde45dd8a8a
parent2b81082ad37cc3f28355fb73a6a69b91ff7dbf20
lib/crypto: arm/curve25519: Disable on CPU_BIG_ENDIAN

On big endian arm kernels, the arm optimized Curve25519 code produces
incorrect outputs and fails the Curve25519 test.  This has been true
ever since this code was added.

It seems that hardly anyone (or even no one?) actually uses big endian
arm kernels.  But as long as they're ostensibly supported, we should
disable this code on them so that it's not accidentally used.

Note: for future-proofing, use !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN instead of
CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN.  Both of these are arch-specific options that could
get removed in the future if big endian support gets dropped.

Fixes: d8f1308a025f ("crypto: arm/curve25519 - wire up NEON implementation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104054906.716914-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
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