xref: /netbsd-src/common/lib/libc/string/consttime_memequal.c (revision 5a2ca44c60182bbe8938ba766d4b68d39d0b202d)
1*5a2ca44cSriastradh /* $NetBSD: consttime_memequal.c,v 1.6 2015/03/18 20:11:35 riastradh Exp $ */
21970d452Sdrochner 
31970d452Sdrochner /*
41970d452Sdrochner  * Written by Matthias Drochner <drochner@NetBSD.org>.
51970d452Sdrochner  * Public domain.
61970d452Sdrochner  */
782db4b98Sriastradh 
882db4b98Sriastradh #if !defined(_KERNEL) && !defined(_STANDALONE)
91239c2bbSriastradh #include "namespace.h"
1082db4b98Sriastradh #include <string.h>
111239c2bbSriastradh #ifdef __weak_alias
__weak_alias(consttime_memequal,_consttime_memequal)121239c2bbSriastradh __weak_alias(consttime_memequal,_consttime_memequal)
131239c2bbSriastradh #endif
1482db4b98Sriastradh #else
1582db4b98Sriastradh #include <lib/libkern/libkern.h>
1682db4b98Sriastradh #endif
1782db4b98Sriastradh 
1882db4b98Sriastradh int
1982db4b98Sriastradh consttime_memequal(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len)
2082db4b98Sriastradh {
21*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	const unsigned char *c1 = b1, *c2 = b2;
22*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	unsigned int res = 0;
2382db4b98Sriastradh 
2482db4b98Sriastradh 	while (len--)
2582db4b98Sriastradh 		res |= *c1++ ^ *c2++;
263db7caeeSriastradh 
273db7caeeSriastradh 	/*
28*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * Map 0 to 1 and [1, 256) to 0 using only constant-time
29*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * arithmetic.
303db7caeeSriastradh 	 *
31*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * This is not simply `!res' because although many CPUs support
32*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * branchless conditional moves and many compilers will take
33*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * advantage of them, certain compilers generate branches on
34*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	 * certain CPUs for `!res'.
353db7caeeSriastradh 	 */
36*5a2ca44cSriastradh 	return (1 & ((res - 1) >> 8));
3782db4b98Sriastradh }
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