25 Apr, 2019
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The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP. These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping. For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API. However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk. It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
18 Apr, 2019
1 commit
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Use subsys_initcall for registration of all templates and generic
algorithm implementations, rather than module_init. Then change
cryptomgr to use arch_initcall, to place it before the subsys_initcalls.This is needed so that when both a generic and optimized implementation
of an algorithm are built into the kernel (not loadable modules), the
generic implementation is registered before the optimized one.
Otherwise, the self-tests for the optimized implementation are unable to
allocate the generic implementation for the new comparison fuzz tests.Note that on arm, a side effect of this change is that self-tests for
generic implementations may run before the unaligned access handler has
been installed. So, unaligned accesses will crash the kernel. This is
arguably a good thing as it makes it easier to detect that type of bug.Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
10 Jan, 2019
1 commit
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crypto_grab_*() doesn't set crypto_spawn::inst, so templates must set it
beforehand. Otherwise it will be left NULL, which causes a crash in
certain cases where algorithms are dynamically loaded/unloaded. E.g.
with CONFIG_CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64=m, the following caused a crash:insmod chacha-x86_64.ko
python -c 'import socket; socket.socket(socket.AF_ALG, 5, 0).bind(("skcipher", "adiantum(xchacha12,aes)"))'
rmmod chacha-x86_64.ko
python -c 'import socket; socket.socket(socket.AF_ALG, 5, 0).bind(("skcipher", "adiantum(xchacha12,aes)"))'Fixes: 059c2a4d8e16 ("crypto: adiantum - add Adiantum support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
13 Dec, 2018
3 commits
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crypto_alg_mod_lookup() takes a reference to the hash algorithm but
crypto_init_shash_spawn() doesn't take ownership of it, hence the
reference needs to be dropped in adiantum_create().Fixes: 059c2a4d8e16 ("crypto: adiantum - add Adiantum support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
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The 2018-11-28 revision of the Adiantum paper has revised some notation:
- 'M' was replaced with 'L' (meaning "Left", for the left-hand part of
the message) in the definition of Adiantum hashing, to avoid confusion
with the full message
- ε-almost-∆-universal is now abbreviated as ε-∆U instead of εA∆U
- "block" is now used only to mean block cipher and Poly1305 blocksAlso, Adiantum hashing was moved from the appendix to the main paper.
To avoid confusion, update relevant comments in the code to match.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
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If the stream cipher implementation is asynchronous, then the Adiantum
instance must be flagged as asynchronous as well. Otherwise someone
asking for a synchronous algorithm can get an asynchronous algorithm.There are no asynchronous xchacha12 or xchacha20 implementations yet
which makes this largely a theoretical issue, but it should be fixed.Fixes: 059c2a4d8e16 ("crypto: adiantum - add Adiantum support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
20 Nov, 2018
1 commit
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Add support for the Adiantum encryption mode. Adiantum was designed by
Paul Crowley and is specified by our paper:Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level processors
(https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf)See our paper for full details; this patch only provides an overview.
Adiantum is a tweakable, length-preserving encryption mode designed for
fast and secure disk encryption, especially on CPUs without dedicated
crypto instructions. Adiantum encrypts each sector using the XChaCha12
stream cipher, two passes of an ε-almost-∆-universal (εA∆U) hash
function, and an invocation of the AES-256 block cipher on a single
16-byte block. On CPUs without AES instructions, Adiantum is much
faster than AES-XTS; for example, on ARM Cortex-A7, on 4096-byte sectors
Adiantum encryption is about 4 times faster than AES-256-XTS encryption,
and decryption about 5 times faster.Adiantum is a specialization of the more general HBSH construction. Our
earlier proposal, HPolyC, was also a HBSH specialization, but it used a
different εA∆U hash function, one based on Poly1305 only. Adiantum's
εA∆U hash function, which is based primarily on the "NH" hash function
like that used in UMAC (RFC4418), is about twice as fast as HPolyC's;
consequently, Adiantum is about 20% faster than HPolyC.This speed comes with no loss of security: Adiantum is provably just as
secure as HPolyC, in fact slightly *more* secure. Like HPolyC,
Adiantum's security is reducible to that of XChaCha12 and AES-256,
subject to a security bound. XChaCha12 itself has a security reduction
to ChaCha12. Therefore, one need not "trust" Adiantum; one need only
trust ChaCha12 and AES-256. Note that the εA∆U hash function is only
used for its proven combinatorical properties so cannot be "broken".Adiantum is also a true wide-block encryption mode, so flipping any
plaintext bit in the sector scrambles the entire ciphertext, and vice
versa. No other such mode is available in the kernel currently; doing
the same with XTS scrambles only 16 bytes. Adiantum also supports
arbitrary-length tweaks and naturally supports any length input >= 16
bytes without needing "ciphertext stealing".For the stream cipher, Adiantum uses XChaCha12 rather than XChaCha20 in
order to make encryption feasible on the widest range of devices.
Although the 20-round variant is quite popular, the best known attacks
on ChaCha are on only 7 rounds, so ChaCha12 still has a substantial
security margin; in fact, larger than AES-256's. 12-round Salsa20 is
also the eSTREAM recommendation. For the block cipher, Adiantum uses
AES-256, despite it having a lower security margin than XChaCha12 and
needing table lookups, due to AES's extensive adoption and analysis
making it the obvious first choice. Nevertheless, for flexibility this
patch also permits the "adiantum" template to be instantiated with
XChaCha20 and/or with an alternate block cipher.We need Adiantum support in the kernel for use in dm-crypt and fscrypt,
where currently the only other suitable options are block cipher modes
such as AES-XTS. A big problem with this is that many low-end mobile
devices (e.g. Android Go phones sold primarily in developing countries,
as well as some smartwatches) still have CPUs that lack AES
instructions, e.g. ARM Cortex-A7. Sadly, AES-XTS encryption is much too
slow to be viable on these devices. We did find that some "lightweight"
block ciphers are fast enough, but these suffer from problems such as
not having much cryptanalysis or being too controversial.The ChaCha stream cipher has excellent performance but is insecure to
use directly for disk encryption, since each sector's IV is reused each
time it is overwritten. Even restricting the threat model to offline
attacks only isn't enough, since modern flash storage devices don't
guarantee that "overwrites" are really overwrites, due to wear-leveling.
Adiantum avoids this problem by constructing a
"tweakable super-pseudorandom permutation"; this is the strongest
possible security model for length-preserving encryption.Of course, storing random nonces along with the ciphertext would be the
ideal solution. But doing that with existing hardware and filesystems
runs into major practical problems; in most cases it would require data
journaling (like dm-integrity) which severely degrades performance.
Thus, for now length-preserving encryption is still needed.Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu