11 Jan, 2008

40 commits

  • This patch makes chainiv avoid spinning by postponing requests on lock
    contention if the user allows the use of asynchronous algorithms. If
    a synchronous algorithm is requested then we behave as before.

    This should improve IPsec performance on SMP when two CPUs attempt to
    transmit over the same SA. Currently one of them will spin doing nothing
    waiting for the other CPU to finish its encryption. This patch makes it
    postpone the request and get on with other work.

    If only one CPU is transmitting for a given SA, then we will process
    the request synchronously as before.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • Now that seqiv supports AEAD algorithms it needs to select the AEAD option.

    Thanks to Erez Zadok for pointing out the problem.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • It's better to return silently than crash and burn when someone feeds us
    a zero length. In particular the null digest algorithm when used as part
    of authenc will do that to us.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • We need to allow setkey on digest_null if it is to be used directly by
    authenc instead of through hmac.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds a null blkcipher algorithm called ecb(cipher_null) for
    backwards compatibility. Previously the null algorithm when used by
    IPsec copied the data byte by byte. This new algorithm optimises that
    to a straight memcpy which lets us better measure inherent overheads in
    our IPsec code.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds 7 test vectors to tcrypt for CCM.
    The test vectors are from rfc 3610.
    There are about 10 more test vectors in RFC 3610
    and 4 or 5 more in NIST. I can add these as time permits.

    I also needed to set authsize. CCM has a prerequisite of
    authsize.

    Signed-off-by: Joy Latten
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Joy Latten
     
  • This patch adds Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM) support.
    RFC 3610 and NIST Special Publication 800-38C were referenced.

    Signed-off-by: Joy Latten
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Joy Latten
     
  • This patch makes crypto_alloc_aead always return algorithms that is
    capable of generating their own IVs through givencrypt and givdecrypt.
    All existing AEAD algorithms already do. New ones must either supply
    their own or specify a generic IV generator with the geniv field.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds support for using seqiv with AEAD algorithms. This is
    useful for those AEAD algorithms that performs authentication before
    encryption because the IV generated by the underlying encryption algorithm
    won't be available for authentication.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch creates the infrastructure to help the construction of IV
    generator templates that wrap around AEAD algorithms by adding an IV
    generator to them. This is useful for AEAD algorithms with no built-in
    IV generator or to replace their built-in generator.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • Some algorithms always require manual IV construction. For instance,
    the generic CCM algorithm requires the first byte of the IV to be manually
    constructed. Such algorithms are always used by other algorithms equipped
    with their own IV generators and do not need IV generation per se.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch finally makes the givencrypt/givdecrypt operations available
    to users by adding crypto_aead_givencrypt and crypto_aead_givdecrypt.
    A suite of helpers to allocate and fill in the request is also available.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch implements the givencrypt function for authenc. It simply
    calls the givencrypt operation on the underlying cipher instead of encrypt.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds the underlying givcrypt operations for aead and associated
    support elements. The rationale is identical to that of the skcipher
    givcrypt operations, i.e., sometimes only the algorithm knows how the
    IV should be generated.

    A new request type aead_givcrypt_request is added which contains an
    embedded aead_request structure with two new elements to support this
    operation. The new elements are seq and giv. The seq field should
    contain a strictly increasing 64-bit integer which may be used by
    certain IV generators as an input value. The giv field will be used
    to store the generated IV. It does not need to obey the alignment
    requirements of the algorithm because it's not used during the operation.

    The existing iv field must still be available as it will be used to store
    intermediate IVs and the output IV if chaining is desired.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch finally makes the givencrypt/givdecrypt operations available
    to users by adding crypto_skcipher_givencrypt and crypto_skcipher_givdecrypt.
    A suite of helpers to allocate and fill in the request is also available.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This generator generates an IV based on a sequence number by xoring it
    with a salt. This algorithm is mainly useful for CTR and similar modes.

    This patch also sets it as the default IV generator for ctr.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • Now that gcm and authenc have been converted to crypto_spawn_skcipher,
    this patch removes the obsolete crypto_spawn_ablkcipher function.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch converts the gcm algorithm over to crypto_grab_skcipher
    which is a prerequisite for IV generation.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds the gcm_base template which takes a block cipher
    parameter instead of cipher. This allows the user to specify a
    specific CTR implementation.

    This also fixes a leak of the cipher algorithm that was previously
    looked up but never freed.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch converts the authenc algorithm over to crypto_grab_skcipher
    which is a prerequisite for IV generation.

    This patch also changes authenc to set its ASYNC status depending on
    the ASYNC status of the underlying skcipher.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch makes crypto_alloc_ablkcipher/crypto_grab_skcipher always
    return algorithms that are capable of generating their own IVs through
    givencrypt and givdecrypt. Each algorithm may specify its default IV
    generator through the geniv field.

    For algorithms that do not set the geniv field, the blkcipher layer will
    pick a default. Currently it's chainiv for synchronous algorithms and
    eseqiv for asynchronous algorithms. Note that if these wrappers do not
    work on an algorithm then that algorithm must specify its own geniv or
    it can't be used at all.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This generator generates an IV based on a sequence number by xoring it
    with a salt and then encrypting it with the same key as used to encrypt
    the plain text. This algorithm requires that the block size be equal
    to the IV size. It is mainly useful for CBC.

    It has one noteworthy property that for IPsec the IV happens to lie
    just before the plain text so the IV generation simply increases the
    number of encrypted blocks by one. Therefore the cost of this generator
    is entirely dependent on the speed of the underlying cipher.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds the helper skcipher_givcrypt_complete which should be
    called when an ablkcipher algorithm has completed a givcrypt request.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • The chain IV generator is the one we've been using in the IPsec stack.
    It simply starts out with a random IV, then uses the last block of each
    encrypted packet's cipher text as the IV for the next packet.

    It can only be used by synchronous ciphers since we have to make sure
    that we don't start the encryption of the next packet until the last
    one has completed.

    It does have the advantage of using very little CPU time since it doesn't
    have to generate anything at all.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch creates the infrastructure to help the construction of givcipher
    templates that wrap around existing blkcipher/ablkcipher algorithms by adding
    an IV generator to them.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • If the underlying algorithm specifies a specific geniv algorithm then
    we should use it for the cryptd version as well.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch introduces the geniv field which indicates the default IV
    generator for each algorithm. It should point to a string that is not
    freed as long as the algorithm is registered.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • Different block cipher modes have different requirements for intialisation
    vectors. For example, CBC can use a simple randomly generated IV while
    modes such as CTR must use an IV generation mechanisms that give a stronger
    guarantee on the lack of collisions. Furthermore, disk encryption modes
    have their own IV generation algorithms.

    Up until now IV generation has been left to the users of the symmetric
    key cipher API. This is inconvenient as the number of block cipher modes
    increase because the user needs to be aware of which mode is supposed to
    be paired with which IV generation algorithm.

    Therefore it makes sense to integrate the IV generation into the crypto
    API. This patch takes the first step in that direction by creating two
    new ablkcipher operations, givencrypt and givdecrypt that generates an
    IV before performing the actual encryption or decryption.

    The operations are currently not exposed to the user. That will be done
    once the underlying functionality has actually been implemented.

    It also creates the underlying givcipher type. Algorithms that directly
    generate IVs would use it instead of ablkcipher. All other algorithms
    (including all existing ones) would generate a givcipher algorithm upon
    registration. This givcipher algorithm will be constructed from the geniv
    string that's stored in every algorithm. That string will locate a template
    which is instantiated by the blkcipher/ablkcipher algorithm in question to
    give a givcipher algorithm.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • Note: From now on the collective of ablkcipher/blkcipher/givcipher will
    be known as skcipher, i.e., symmetric key cipher. The name blkcipher has
    always been much of a misnomer since it supports stream ciphers too.

    This patch adds the function crypto_grab_skcipher as a new way of getting
    an ablkcipher spawn. The problem is that previously we did this in two
    steps, first getting the algorithm and then calling crypto_init_spawn.

    This meant that each spawn user had to be aware of what type and mask to
    use for these two steps. This is difficult and also presents a problem
    when the type/mask changes as they're about to be for IV generators.

    The new interface does both steps together just like crypto_alloc_ablkcipher.

    As a side-effect this also allows us to be stronger on type enforcement
    for spawns. For now this is only done for ablkcipher but it's trivial
    to extend for other types.

    This patch also moves the type/mask logic for skcipher into the helpers
    crypto_skcipher_type and crypto_skcipher_mask.

    Finally this patch introduces the function crypto_require_sync to determine
    whether the user is specifically requesting a sync algorithm.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds the necessary changes for GCM to be used with async
    ciphers. This would allow it to be used with hardware devices that
    support CTR.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • As discussed previously, this patch moves the basic CTR functionality
    into a chainable algorithm called ctr. The IPsec-specific variant of
    it is now placed on top with the name rfc3686.

    So ctr(aes) gives a chainable cipher with IV size 16 while the IPsec
    variant will be called rfc3686(ctr(aes)). This patch also adjusts
    gcm accordingly.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • With the impending addition of the givcipher type, both blkcipher and
    ablkcipher algorithms will use it to create givcipher objects. As such
    it no longer makes sense to split the system between ablkcipher and
    blkcipher. In particular, both ablkcipher.c and blkcipher.c would need
    to use the givcipher type which has to reside in ablkcipher.c since it
    shares much code with it.

    This patch merges the two Kconfig options as well as the modules into one.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch fixes the request context alignment so that it is actually
    aligned to the value required by the algorithm.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch adds a new helper crypto_attr_alg_name which is basically the
    first half of crypto_attr_alg. That is, it returns an algorithm name
    parameter as a string without looking it up. The caller can then look it
    up immediately or defer it until later.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • When allocating ablkcipher/hash objects, we use a mask that's wider than
    the usual type mask. This patch sanitises the mask supplied by the user
    so we don't end up using a narrower mask which may lead to unintended
    results.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • i get here:

    ----
    LD vmlinux
    SYSMAP System.map
    SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
    Building modules, stage 2.
    MODPOST 226 modules
    ERROR: "crypto_hash_type" [crypto/authenc.ko] undefined!
    make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
    make: *** [modules] Error 2
    ---

    which fails because crypto_hash_type is declared in crypto/hash.c. You might wanna
    fix it like so:

    Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Borislav Petkov
     
  • This patch adds __dev{init,exit} annotations.

    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Adrian Bunk
     
  • This patch merges the common hashing code between encryption and decryption.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • This patch changes setkey to use RTA_OK to check the validity of the
    setkey request.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • The ivsize should be fetched from ablkcipher, not blkcipher.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu