30 May, 2022

1 commit

  • commit 9a1536b093bb5bf60689021275fd24d513bb8db0 upstream.

    With SHA-1 no longer being used for anything performance oriented, and
    also soon to be phased out entirely, we can make up for the space added
    by unrolled BLAKE2s by simply re-rolling SHA-1. Since SHA-1 is so much
    more complex, re-rolling it more or less takes care of the code size
    added by BLAKE2s. And eventually, hopefully we'll see SHA-1 removed
    entirely from most small kernel builds.

    Cc: Herbert Xu
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel
    Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Jason A. Donenfeld
     

20 Nov, 2020

1 commit

  • Currently contains declarations for both SHA-1 and SHA-2,
    and contains declarations for SHA-3.

    This organization is inconsistent, but more importantly SHA-1 is no
    longer considered to be cryptographically secure. So to the extent
    possible, SHA-1 shouldn't be grouped together with any of the other SHA
    versions, and usage of it should be phased out.

    Therefore, split into two headers and
    , and make everyone explicitly specify whether they want
    the declarations for SHA-1, SHA-2, or both.

    This avoids making the SHA-1 declarations visible to files that don't
    want anything to do with SHA-1. It also prepares for potentially moving
    sha1.h into a new insecure/ or dangerous/ directory.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
    Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel
    Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Eric Biggers
     

08 May, 2020

2 commits

  • sounds very generic and important, like it's the
    header to include if you're doing cryptographic hashing in the kernel.
    But actually it only includes the library implementation of the SHA-1
    compression function (not even the full SHA-1). This should basically
    never be used anymore; SHA-1 is no longer considered secure, and there
    are much better ways to do cryptographic hashing in the kernel.

    Remove this header and fold it into which already
    contains constants and functions for SHA-1 (along with SHA-2).

    Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Eric Biggers
     
  • The library implementation of the SHA-1 compression function is
    confusingly called just "sha_transform()". Alongside it are some "SHA_"
    constants and "sha_init()". Presumably these are left over from a time
    when SHA just meant SHA-1. But now there are also SHA-2 and SHA-3, and
    moreover SHA-1 is now considered insecure and thus shouldn't be used.

    Therefore, rename these functions and constants to make it very clear
    that they are for SHA-1. Also add a comment to make it clear that these
    shouldn't be used.

    For the extra-misleadingly named "SHA_MESSAGE_BYTES", rename it to
    SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE and define it to just '64' rather than '(512/8)' so that
    it matches the same definition in . This prepares for
    merging into .

    Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Eric Biggers
     

02 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
    makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

    By default all files without license information are under the default
    license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

    Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
    SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
    shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

    This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
    Philippe Ombredanne.

    How this work was done:

    Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
    the use cases:
    - file had no licensing information it it.
    - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
    - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

    Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
    where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
    had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

    The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
    a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
    output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
    tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
    base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

    The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
    assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
    results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
    to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
    immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

    Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
    - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
    - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
    lines of source
    - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
    Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

24 Mar, 2015

1 commit


08 Mar, 2012

1 commit


14 Sep, 2011

1 commit


07 Aug, 2011

1 commit

  • For ChromiumOS, we use SHA-1 to verify the integrity of the root
    filesystem. The speed of the kernel sha-1 implementation has a major
    impact on our boot performance.

    To improve boot performance, we investigated using the heavily optimized
    sha-1 implementation used in git. With the git sha-1 implementation, we
    see a 11.7% improvement in boot time.

    10 reboots, remove slowest/fastest.

    Before:

    Mean: 6.58 seconds Stdev: 0.14

    After (with git sha-1, this patch):

    Mean: 5.89 seconds Stdev: 0.07

    The other cool thing about the git SHA-1 implementation is that it only
    needs 64 bytes of stack for the workspace while the original kernel
    implementation needed 320 bytes.

    Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines
    Cc: Ramsay Jones
    Cc: Nicolas Pitre
    Cc: Herbert Xu
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mandeep Singh Baines
     

12 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
    source files, including:

    * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
    * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
    * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
    * reword some text for clarity

    Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
    Cc: "Randy.Dunlap"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Robert P. J. Day
     

26 Jun, 2005

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds