[PATCH 2/4] crypto: lib/chacha - use struct assignment to copy state

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Tue May 6 04:18:22 AEST 2025


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

Use struct assignment instead of memcpy() in lib/crypto/chacha.c where
appropriate.  No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 lib/crypto/chacha.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crypto/chacha.c b/lib/crypto/chacha.c
index a7f5eb091839..ae50e441f9fb 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/chacha.c
+++ b/lib/crypto/chacha.c
@@ -74,15 +74,13 @@ static void chacha_permute(struct chacha_state *state, int nrounds)
  * The caller has already converted the endianness of the input.  This function
  * also handles incrementing the block counter in the input matrix.
  */
 void chacha_block_generic(struct chacha_state *state, u8 *stream, int nrounds)
 {
-	struct chacha_state permuted_state;
+	struct chacha_state permuted_state = *state;
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy(permuted_state.x, state->x, 64);
-
 	chacha_permute(&permuted_state, nrounds);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(state->x); i++)
 		put_unaligned_le32(permuted_state.x[i] + state->x[i],
 				   &stream[i * sizeof(u32)]);
@@ -103,13 +101,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(chacha_block_generic);
  * of the state.  It should not be used for streaming directly.
  */
 void hchacha_block_generic(const struct chacha_state *state,
 			   u32 *stream, int nrounds)
 {
-	struct chacha_state permuted_state;
-
-	memcpy(permuted_state.x, state->x, 64);
+	struct chacha_state permuted_state = *state;
 
 	chacha_permute(&permuted_state, nrounds);
 
 	memcpy(&stream[0], &permuted_state.x[0], 16);
 	memcpy(&stream[4], &permuted_state.x[12], 16);
-- 
2.49.0



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