Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
analysis features. (Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
admittedly.)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
(default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
function calls.
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
(Arnd Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
(Tamir Duberstein)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
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Merge tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull keys update from David Howells:
"This adds support for ML-DSA signatures in X.509 certificates and
PKCS#7/CMS messages, thereby allowing this algorithm to be used for
signing modules, kexec'able binaries, wifi regulatory data, etc..
This requires OpenSSL-3.5 at a minimum and preferably OpenSSL-4 (so
that it can avoid the use of CMS signedAttrs - but that version is not
cut yet). certs/Kconfig does a check to hide the signing options if
OpenSSL does not list the algorithm as being available"
* tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
pkcs7: Change a pr_warn() to pr_warn_once()
pkcs7: Allow authenticatedAttributes for ML-DSA
modsign: Enable ML-DSA module signing
pkcs7, x509: Add ML-DSA support
pkcs7: Allow the signing algo to do whatever digestion it wants itself
pkcs7, x509: Rename ->digest to ->m
x509: Separately calculate sha256 for blacklist
crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
API:
- Fix race condition in hwrng core by using RCU.
Algorithms:
- Allow authenc(sha224,rfc3686) in fips mode.
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha384),cbc(aes)).
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha224),cbc(aes)).
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(md5),cbc(des3_ede)).
- Add lz4 support in hisi_zip.
- Only allow clear key use during self-test in s390/{phmac,paes}.
Drivers:
- Set rng quality to 900 in airoha.
- Add gcm(aes) support for AMD/Xilinx Versal device.
- Allow tfms to share device in hisilicon/trng.
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Merge tag 'v7.0-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Fix race condition in hwrng core by using RCU
Algorithms:
- Allow authenc(sha224,rfc3686) in fips mode
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha384),cbc(aes))
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha224),cbc(aes))
- Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(md5),cbc(des3_ede))
- Add lz4 support in hisi_zip
- Only allow clear key use during self-test in s390/{phmac,paes}
Drivers:
- Set rng quality to 900 in airoha
- Add gcm(aes) support for AMD/Xilinx Versal device
- Allow tfms to share device in hisilicon/trng"
* tag 'v7.0-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (100 commits)
crypto: img-hash - Use unregister_ahashes in img_{un}register_algs
crypto: testmgr - Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(md5),cbc(des3_ede))
crypto: cesa - Simplify return statement in mv_cesa_dequeue_req_locked
crypto: testmgr - Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha224),cbc(aes))
crypto: testmgr - Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(sha384),cbc(aes))
hwrng: core - use RCU and work_struct to fix race condition
crypto: starfive - Fix memory leak in starfive_aes_aead_do_one_req()
crypto: xilinx - Fix inconsistant indentation
crypto: rng - Use unregister_rngs in register_rngs
crypto: atmel - Use unregister_{aeads,ahashes,skciphers}
hwrng: optee - simplify OP-TEE context match
crypto: ccp - Add sysfs attribute for boot integrity
dt-bindings: crypto: atmel,at91sam9g46-sha: add microchip,lan9691-sha
dt-bindings: crypto: atmel,at91sam9g46-aes: add microchip,lan9691-aes
dt-bindings: crypto: qcom,inline-crypto-engine: document the Milos ICE
crypto: caam - fix netdev memory leak in dpaa2_caam_probe
crypto: hisilicon/qm - increase wait time for mailbox
crypto: hisilicon/qm - obtain the mailbox configuration at one time
crypto: hisilicon/qm - remove unnecessary code in qm_mb_write()
crypto: hisilicon/qm - move the barrier before writing to the mailbox register
...
mldsa_verify() implements ML-DSA.Verify with ctx='', so document this
more explicitly. Remove the one-liner comment above mldsa_verify()
which was somewhat misleading.
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202221552.174341-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add a new helper function crypto_skcipher_tested() which evaluates
the CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED flag from the tfm base cra_flags field.
Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler <dengler@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Allow the data to be verified in a PKCS#7 or CMS message to be passed
directly to an asymmetric cipher algorithm (e.g. ML-DSA) if it wants to do
whatever passes for hashing/digestion itself. The normal digestion of the
data is then skipped as that would be ignored unless another signed info in
the message has some other algorithm that needs it.
The 'data to be verified' may be the content of the PKCS#7 message or it
will be the authenticatedAttributes (signedAttrs if CMS), modified, if
those are present.
This is done by:
(1) Make ->m and ->m_size point to the data to be verified rather than
making public_key_verify_signature() access the data directly. This
is so that keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY) will still work.
(2) Add a flag, ->algo_takes_data, to indicate that the verification
algorithm wants to access the data to be verified directly rather than
having it digested first.
(3) If the PKCS#7 message has authenticatedAttributes (or CMS
signedAttrs), then the digest contained therein will be validated as
now, and the modified attrs blob will either be digested or assigned
to ->m as appropriate.
(4) If present, always copy and modify the authenticatedAttributes (or
signedAttrs) then digest that in one go rather than calling the shash
update twice (once for the tag and once for the rest).
(5) For ML-DSA, point ->m to the TBSCertificate instead of digesting it
and using the digest.
Note that whilst ML-DSA does allow for an "external mu", CMS doesn't yet
have that standardised.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Rename ->digest and ->digest_len to ->m and ->m_size to represent the input
to the signature verification algorithm, reflecting that ->digest may no
longer actually *be* a digest.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Now that all callers of the aes_encrypt() and aes_decrypt() type-generic
macros are using the new types, remove the old functions.
Then, replace the macro with direct calls to the new functions, dropping
the "_new" suffix from them.
This completes the change in the type of the key struct that is passed
to aes_encrypt() and aes_decrypt().
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-35-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Switch from the old AES library functions (which use struct
crypto_aes_ctx) to the new ones (which use struct aes_enckey). This
eliminates the unnecessary computation and caching of the decryption
round keys. The new AES en/decryption functions are also much faster
and use AES instructions when supported by the CPU.
Note that in addition to the change in the key preparation function and
the key struct type itself, the change in the type of the key struct
results in aes_encrypt() (which is temporarily a type-generic macro)
calling the new encryption function rather than the old one.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-34-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Switch from the old AES library functions (which use struct
crypto_aes_ctx) to the new ones (which use struct aes_enckey). This
eliminates the unnecessary computation and caching of the decryption
round keys. The new AES en/decryption functions are also much faster
and use AES instructions when supported by the CPU.
Note that in addition to the change in the key preparation function and
the key struct type itself, the change in the type of the key struct
results in aes_encrypt() (which is temporarily a type-generic macro)
calling the new encryption function rather than the old one.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-33-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Switch from the old AES library functions (which use struct
crypto_aes_ctx) to the new ones (which use struct aes_enckey). This
eliminates the unnecessary computation and caching of the decryption
round keys. The new AES en/decryption functions are also much faster
and use AES instructions when supported by the CPU.
Note that in addition to the change in the key preparation function and
the key struct type itself, the change in the type of the key struct
results in aes_encrypt() (which is temporarily a type-generic macro)
calling the new encryption function rather than the old one.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-30-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Move the SPARC64 AES assembly code into lib/crypto/, wire the key
expansion and single-block en/decryption functions up to the AES library
API, and remove the "aes-sparc64" crypto_cipher algorithm.
The result is that both the AES library and crypto_cipher APIs use the
SPARC64 AES opcodes, whereas previously only crypto_cipher did (and it
wasn't enabled by default, which this commit fixes as well).
Note that some of the functions in the SPARC64 AES assembly code are
still used by the AES mode implementations in
arch/sparc/crypto/aes_glue.c. For now, just export these functions.
These exports will go away once the AES mode implementations are
migrated to the library as well. (Trying to split up the assembly file
seemed like much more trouble than it would be worth.)
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-17-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Implement aes_preparekey_arch(), aes_encrypt_arch(), and
aes_decrypt_arch() using the CPACF AES instructions.
Then, remove the superseded "aes-s390" crypto_cipher.
The result is that both the AES library and crypto_cipher APIs use the
CPACF AES instructions, whereas previously only crypto_cipher did (and
it wasn't enabled by default, which this commit fixes as well).
Note that this preserves the optimization where the AES key is stored in
raw form rather than expanded form. CPACF just takes the raw key.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Holger Dengler <dengler@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler <dengler@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-16-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Move the POWER8 AES assembly code into lib/crypto/, wire the key
expansion and single-block en/decryption functions up to the AES library
API, and remove the superseded "p8_aes" crypto_cipher algorithm.
The result is that both the AES library and crypto_cipher APIs are now
optimized for POWER8, whereas previously only crypto_cipher was (and
optimizations weren't enabled by default, which this commit fixes too).
Note that many of the functions in the POWER8 assembly code are still
used by the AES mode implementations in arch/powerpc/crypto/. For now,
just export these functions. These exports will go away once the AES
modes are migrated to the library as well. (Trying to split up the
assembly file seemed like much more trouble than it would be worth.)
Another challenge with this code is that the POWER8 assembly code uses a
custom format for the expanded AES key. Since that code is imported
from OpenSSL and is also targeted to POWER8 (rather than POWER9 which
has better data movement and byteswap instructions), that is not easily
changed. For now I've just kept the custom format. To maintain full
correctness, this requires executing some slow fallback code in the case
where the usability of VSX changes between key expansion and use. This
should be tolerable, as this case shouldn't happen in practice.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-14-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Move the PowerPC SPE AES assembly code into lib/crypto/, wire the key
expansion and single-block en/decryption functions up to the AES library
API, and remove the superseded "aes-ppc-spe" crypto_cipher algorithm.
The result is that both the AES library and crypto_cipher APIs are now
optimized with SPE, whereas previously only crypto_cipher was (and
optimizations weren't enabled by default, which this commit fixes too).
Note that many of the functions in the PowerPC SPE assembly code are
still used by the AES mode implementations in arch/powerpc/crypto/. For
now, just export these functions. These exports will go away once the
AES modes are migrated to the library as well. (Trying to split up the
assembly files seemed like much more trouble than it would be worth.)
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-13-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Move the ARM64 optimized AES key expansion and single-block AES
en/decryption code into lib/crypto/, wire it up to the AES library API,
and remove the superseded crypto_cipher algorithms.
The result is that both the AES library and crypto_cipher APIs are now
optimized for ARM64, whereas previously only crypto_cipher was (and the
optimizations weren't enabled by default, which this fixes as well).
Note: to see the diff from arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-glue.c to
lib/crypto/arm64/aes.h, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-12-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Now that the AES library's performance has been improved, replace
aes_generic.c with a new file aes.c which wraps the AES library.
In preparation for making the AES library actually utilize the kernel's
existing architecture-optimized AES code including AES instructions, set
the driver name to "aes-lib" instead of "aes-generic". This mirrors
what's been done for the hash algorithms. Update testmgr.c accordingly.
Since this removes the crypto_aes_set_key() helper function, add
temporary replacements for it to arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.c and
arch/arm64/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.c. This is temporary, as that code
will be migrated into lib/crypto/ in later commits.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-10-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
The kernel's AES library currently has the following issues:
- It doesn't take advantage of the architecture-optimized AES code,
including the implementations using AES instructions.
- It's much slower than even the other software AES implementations: 2-4
times slower than "aes-generic", "aes-arm", and "aes-arm64".
- It requires that both the encryption and decryption round keys be
computed and cached. This is wasteful for users that need only the
forward (encryption) direction of the cipher: the key struct is 484
bytes when only 244 are actually needed. This missed optimization is
very common, as many AES modes (e.g. GCM, CFB, CTR, CMAC, and even the
tweak key in XTS) use the cipher only in the forward (encryption)
direction even when doing decryption.
- It doesn't provide the flexibility to customize the prepared key
format. The API is defined to do key expansion, and several callers
in drivers/crypto/ use it specifically to expand the key. This is an
issue when integrating the existing powerpc, s390, and sparc code,
which is necessary to provide full parity with the traditional API.
To resolve these issues, I'm proposing the following changes:
1. New structs 'aes_key' and 'aes_enckey' are introduced, with
corresponding functions aes_preparekey() and aes_prepareenckey().
Generally these structs will include the encryption+decryption round
keys and the encryption round keys, respectively. However, the exact
format will be under control of the architecture-specific AES code.
(The verb "prepare" is chosen over "expand" since key expansion isn't
necessarily done. It's also consistent with hmac*_preparekey().)
2. aes_encrypt() and aes_decrypt() will be changed to operate on the new
structs instead of struct crypto_aes_ctx.
3. aes_encrypt() and aes_decrypt() will use architecture-optimized code
when available, or else fall back to a new generic AES implementation
that unifies the existing two fragmented generic AES implementations.
The new generic AES implementation uses tables for both SubBytes and
MixColumns, making it almost as fast as "aes-generic". However,
instead of aes-generic's huge 8192-byte tables per direction, it uses
only 1024 bytes for encryption and 1280 bytes for decryption (similar
to "aes-arm"). The cost is just some extra rotations.
The new generic AES implementation also includes table prefetching,
making it have some "constant-time hardening". That's an improvement
from aes-generic which has no constant-time hardening.
It does slightly regress in constant-time hardening vs. the old
lib/crypto/aes.c which had smaller tables, and from aes-fixed-time
which disabled IRQs on top of that. But I think this is tolerable.
The real solutions for constant-time AES are AES instructions or
bit-slicing. The table-based code remains a best-effort fallback for
the increasingly-rare case where a real solution is unavailable.
4. crypto_aes_ctx and aes_expandkey() will remain for now, but only for
callers that are using them specifically for the AES key expansion
(as opposed to en/decrypting data with the AES library).
This commit begins the migration process by introducing the new structs
and functions, backed by the new generic AES implementation.
To allow callers to be incrementally converted, aes_encrypt() and
aes_decrypt() are temporarily changed into macros that use a _Generic
expression to call either the old functions (which take crypto_aes_ctx)
or the new functions (which take the new types). Once all callers have
been updated, these macros will go away, the old functions will be
removed, and the "_new" suffix will be dropped from the new functions.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260112192035.10427-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Remove nhpoly1305 support from crypto_shash. It no longer has any user
now that crypto/adiantum.c no longer uses it.
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251211011846.8179-11-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add support for the NH "almost-universal hash function" to lib/crypto/,
specifically the variant of NH used in Adiantum.
This will replace the need for the "nhpoly1305" crypto_shash algorithm.
All the implementations of "nhpoly1305" use architecture-optimized code
only for the NH stage; they just use the generic C Poly1305 code for the
Poly1305 stage. We can achieve the same result in a simpler way using
an (architecture-optimized) nh() function combined with code in
crypto/adiantum.c that passes the results to the Poly1305 library.
This commit begins this cleanup by adding the nh() function. The code
is derived from crypto/nhpoly1305.c and include/crypto/nhpoly1305.h.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251211011846.8179-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add support for verifying ML-DSA signatures.
ML-DSA (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm) is specified
in FIPS 204 and is the standard version of Dilithium. Unlike RSA and
elliptic-curve cryptography, ML-DSA is believed to be secure even
against adversaries in possession of a large-scale quantum computer.
Compared to the earlier patch
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251117145606.2155773-3-dhowells@redhat.com/)
that was based on "leancrypto", this implementation:
- Is about 700 lines of source code instead of 4800.
- Generates about 4 KB of object code instead of 28 KB.
- Uses 9-13 KB of memory to verify a signature instead of 31-84 KB.
- Is at least about the same speed, with a microbenchmark showing 3-5%
improvements on one x86_64 CPU and -1% to 1% changes on another.
When memory is a bottleneck, it's likely much faster.
- Correctly implements the RejNTTPoly step of the algorithm.
The API just consists of a single function mldsa_verify(), supporting
pure ML-DSA with any standard parameter set (ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65, or
ML-DSA-87) as selected by an enum. That's all that's actually needed.
The following four potential features are unneeded and aren't included.
However, any that ever become needed could fairly easily be added later,
as they only affect how the message representative mu is calculated:
- Nonempty context strings
- Incremental message hashing
- HashML-DSA
- External mu
Signing support would, of course, be a larger and more complex addition.
However, the kernel doesn't, and shouldn't, need ML-DSA signing support.
Note that mldsa_verify() allocates memory, so it can sleep and can fail
with ENOMEM. Unfortunately we don't have much choice about that, since
ML-DSA needs a lot of memory. At least callers have to check for errors
anyway, since the signature could be invalid.
Note that verification doesn't require constant-time code, and in fact
some steps are inherently variable-time. I've used constant-time
patterns in some places anyway, but technically they're not needed.
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251214181712.29132-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Enable context analysis for crypto subsystem.
This demonstrates a larger conversion to use Clang's context
analysis. The benefit is additional static checking of locking rules,
along with better documentation.
Note the use of the __acquire_ret macro how to define an API where a
function returns a pointer to an object (struct scomp_scratch) with a
lock held. Additionally, the analysis only resolves aliases where the
analysis unambiguously sees that a variable was not reassigned after
initialization, requiring minor code changes.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-36-elver@google.com
API:
- Rewrite memcpy_sglist from scratch.
- Add on-stack AEAD request allocation.
- Fix partial block processing in ahash.
Algorithms:
- Remove ansi_cprng.
- Remove tcrypt tests for poly1305.
- Fix EINPROGRESS processing in authenc.
- Fix double-free in zstd.
Drivers:
- Use drbg ctr helper when reseeding xilinx-trng.
- Add support for PCI device 0x115A to ccp.
- Add support of paes in caam.
- Add support for aes-xts in dthev2.
Others:
- Use likely in rhashtable lookup.
- Fix lockdep false-positive in padata by removing a helper.
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Merge tag 'v6.19-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Rewrite memcpy_sglist from scratch
- Add on-stack AEAD request allocation
- Fix partial block processing in ahash
Algorithms:
- Remove ansi_cprng
- Remove tcrypt tests for poly1305
- Fix EINPROGRESS processing in authenc
- Fix double-free in zstd
Drivers:
- Use drbg ctr helper when reseeding xilinx-trng
- Add support for PCI device 0x115A to ccp
- Add support of paes in caam
- Add support for aes-xts in dthev2
Others:
- Use likely in rhashtable lookup
- Fix lockdep false-positive in padata by removing a helper"
* tag 'v6.19-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (71 commits)
crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup
crypto: ahash - Zero positive err value in ahash_update_finish
crypto: ahash - Fix crypto_ahash_import with partial block data
crypto: lib/mpi - use min() instead of min_t()
crypto: ccp - use min() instead of min_t()
hwrng: core - use min3() instead of nested min_t()
crypto: aesni - ctr_crypt() use min() instead of min_t()
crypto: drbg - Delete unused ctx from struct sdesc
crypto: testmgr - Add missing DES weak and semi-weak key tests
Revert "crypto: scatterwalk - Move skcipher walk and use it for memcpy_sglist"
crypto: scatterwalk - Fix memcpy_sglist() to always succeed
crypto: iaa - Request to add Kanchana P Sridhar to Maintainers.
crypto: tcrypt - Remove unused poly1305 support
crypto: ansi_cprng - Remove unused ansi_cprng algorithm
crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix uninitialized pointers with free attribute
KEYS: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
crypto: ccree - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len
crypto: starfive - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len
crypto: iaa - Fix incorrect return value in save_iaa_wq()
crypto: zstd - Remove unnecessary size_t cast
...
C supports lower bounds on the sizes of array parameters, using the
static keyword as follows: 'void f(int a[static 32]);'. This allows
the compiler to warn about a too-small array being passed.
As discussed, this reuse of the 'static' keyword, while standard, is a
bit obscure. Therefore, add an alias 'at_least' to compiler_types.h.
Then, add this 'at_least' annotation to the array parameters of
various crypto library functions.
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Merge tag 'libcrypto-at-least-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull 'at_least' array size update from Eric Biggers:
"C supports lower bounds on the sizes of array parameters, using the
static keyword as follows: 'void f(int a[static 32]);'. This allows
the compiler to warn about a too-small array being passed.
As discussed, this reuse of the 'static' keyword, while standard, is a
bit obscure. Therefore, add an alias 'at_least' to compiler_types.h.
Then, add this 'at_least' annotation to the array parameters of
various crypto library functions"
* tag 'libcrypto-at-least-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
lib/crypto: sha2: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: sha1: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: poly1305: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: md5: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: curve25519: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha20poly1305: Statically check fixed array lengths
compiler_types: introduce at_least parameter decoration pseudo keyword
wifi: iwlwifi: trans: rename at_least variable to min_mode
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the sha2 library functions. This causes clang to warn
when a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the sha1 library functions. This causes clang to warn
when a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the poly1305 library functions. This causes clang to warn
when a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the md5 library functions. This causes clang to warn when
a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the curve25519 library functions. This causes clang to
warn when a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
parameters of the chacha library functions. This causes clang to warn
when a too-small array of known size is passed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122194206.31822-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Several parameters of the chacha20poly1305 functions require arrays of
an exact length. Use the new at_least keyword to instruct gcc and
clang to statically check that the caller is passing an object of at
least that length.
Here it is in action, with this faulty patch to wireguard's cookie.h:
struct cookie_checker {
u8 secret[NOISE_HASH_LEN];
- u8 cookie_encryption_key[NOISE_SYMMETRIC_KEY_LEN];
+ u8 cookie_encryption_key[NOISE_SYMMETRIC_KEY_LEN - 1];
u8 message_mac1_key[NOISE_SYMMETRIC_KEY_LEN];
If I try compiling this code, I get this helpful warning:
CC drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.o
drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c: In function ‘wg_cookie_message_create’:
drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c:193:9: warning: ‘xchacha20poly1305_encrypt’ reading 32 bytes from a region of size 31 [-Wstringop-overread]
193 | xchacha20poly1305_encrypt(dst->encrypted_cookie, cookie, COOKIE_LEN,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
194 | macs->mac1, COOKIE_LEN, dst->nonce,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
195 | checker->cookie_encryption_key);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c:193:9: note: referencing argument 7 of type ‘const u8 *’ {aka ‘const unsigned char *’}
In file included from drivers/net/wireguard/messages.h:10,
from drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.h:9,
from drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c:6:
include/crypto/chacha20poly1305.h:28:6: note: in a call to function ‘xchacha20poly1305_encrypt’
28 | void xchacha20poly1305_encrypt(u8 *dst, const u8 *src, const size_t src_len,
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251123054819.2371989-4-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 0f8d42bf12, with the
memcpy_sglist() part dropped.
Now that memcpy_sglist() no longer uses the skcipher_walk code, the
skcipher_walk code can be moved back to where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The original implementation of memcpy_sglist() was broken because it
didn't handle scatterlists that describe exactly the same memory, which
is a case that many callers rely on. The current implementation is
broken too because it calls the skcipher_walk functions which can fail.
It ignores any errors from those functions.
Fix it by replacing it with a new implementation written from scratch.
It always succeeds. It's also a bit faster, since it avoids the
overhead of skcipher_walk. skcipher_walk includes a lot of
functionality (such as alignmask handling) that's irrelevant here.
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <coking@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251114122620.111623-1-coking@nvidia.com
Fixes: 131bdceca1 ("crypto: scatterwalk - Add memcpy_sglist")
Fixes: 0f8d42bf12 ("crypto: scatterwalk - Move skcipher walk and use it for memcpy_sglist")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Remove ansi_cprng, since it's obsolete and unused, as confirmed at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/aQxpnckYMgAAOLpZ@gondor.apana.org.au/
This was originally added in 2008, apparently as a FIPS approved random
number generator. Whether this has ever belonged upstream is
questionable. Either way, ansi_cprng is no longer usable for this
purpose, since it's been superseded by the more modern algorithms in
crypto/drbg.c, and FIPS itself no longer allows it. (NIST SP 800-131A
Rev 1 (2015) says that RNGs based on ANSI X9.31 will be disallowed after
2015. NIST SP 800-131A Rev 2 (2019) confirms they are now disallowed.)
Therefore, there is no reason to keep it around.
Suggested-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Migrate the x86_64 implementation of POLYVAL into lib/crypto/, wiring it
up to the POLYVAL library interface. This makes the POLYVAL library be
properly optimized on x86_64.
This drops the x86_64 optimizations of polyval in the crypto_shash API.
That's fine, since polyval will be removed from crypto_shash entirely
since it is unneeded there. But even if it comes back, the crypto_shash
API could just be implemented on top of the library API, as usual.
Adjust the names and prototypes of the assembly functions to align more
closely with the rest of the library code.
Also replace a movaps instruction with movups to remove the assumption
that the key struct is 16-byte aligned. Users can still align the key
if they want (and at least in this case, movups is just as fast as
movaps), but it's inconvenient to require it.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251109234726.638437-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Migrate the arm64 implementation of POLYVAL into lib/crypto/, wiring it
up to the POLYVAL library interface. This makes the POLYVAL library be
properly optimized on arm64.
This drops the arm64 optimizations of polyval in the crypto_shash API.
That's fine, since polyval will be removed from crypto_shash entirely
since it is unneeded there. But even if it comes back, the crypto_shash
API could just be implemented on top of the library API, as usual.
Adjust the names and prototypes of the assembly functions to align more
closely with the rest of the library code.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251109234726.638437-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add support for POLYVAL to lib/crypto/.
This will replace the polyval crypto_shash algorithm and its use in the
hctr2 template, simplifying the code and reducing overhead.
Specifically, this commit introduces the POLYVAL library API and a
generic implementation of it. Later commits will migrate the existing
architecture-optimized implementations of POLYVAL into lib/crypto/ and
add a KUnit test suite.
I've also rewritten the generic implementation completely, using a more
modern approach instead of the traditional table-based approach. It's
now constant-time, requires no precomputation or dynamic memory
allocations, decreases the per-key memory usage from 4096 bytes to 16
bytes, and is faster than the old polyval-generic even on bulk data
reusing the same key (at least on x86_64, where I measured 15% faster).
We should do this for GHASH too, but for now just do it for POLYVAL.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251109234726.638437-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Replace sha3_generic.c with a new file sha3.c which implements the SHA-3
crypto_shash algorithms on top of the SHA-3 library API.
Change the driver name suffix from "-generic" to "-lib" to reflect that
these algorithms now just use the (possibly arch-optimized) library.
This closely mirrors crypto/{md5,sha1,sha256,sha512,blake2b}.c.
Implement export_core and import_core, since crypto/hmac.c expects these
to be present. (Note that there is no security purpose in wrapping
SHA-3 with HMAC. HMAC was designed for older algorithms that don't
resist length extension attacks. But since someone could be using
"hmac(sha3-*)" via crypto_shash anyway, keep supporting it for now.)
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026055032.1413733-15-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add SHA-3 support to lib/crypto/. All six algorithms in the SHA-3
family are supported: four digests (SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, and
SHA3-512) and two extendable-output functions (SHAKE128 and SHAKE256).
The SHAKE algorithms will be required for ML-DSA.
[EB: simplified the API to use fewer types and functions, fixed bug that
sometimes caused incorrect SHAKE output, cleaned up the
documentation, dropped an ad-hoc test that was inconsistent with
the rest of lib/crypto/, and many other cleanups]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026055032.1413733-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
This patch introduces infrastructure for allocating req objects on the
stack for AEADs. The additions mirror the existing sync skcipher APIs.
This can be used in cases where simple sync AEAD operations are being
done. So allocating the request on stack avoides possible out-of-memory
errors.
The struct crypto_sync_aead is a wrapper around crypto_aead and should
be used in its place when sync only requests will be done on the stack.
Correspondingly, the request should be allocated with
SYNC_AEAD_REQUEST_ON_STACK().
Similar to sync_skcipher APIs, the new sync_aead APIs are wrappers
around the regular aead APIs to facilitate sync only operations. The
following crypto APIs are added:
- struct crypto_sync_aead
- crypto_alloc_sync_aead()
- crypto_free_sync_aead()
- crypto_aync_aead_tfm()
- crypto_sync_aead_setkey()
- crypto_sync_aead_setauthsize()
- crypto_sync_aead_authsize()
- crypto_sync_aead_maxauthsize()
- crypto_sync_aead_ivsize()
- crypto_sync_aead_blocksize()
- crypto_sync_aead_get_flags()
- crypto_sync_aead_set_flags()
- crypto_sync_aead_clear_flags()
- crypto_sync_aead_reqtfm()
- aead_request_set_sync_tfm()
- SYNC_AEAD_REQUEST_ON_STACK()
Signed-off-by: T Pratham <t-pratham@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Replace blake2b_generic.c with a new file blake2b.c which implements the
BLAKE2b crypto_shash algorithms on top of the BLAKE2b library API.
Change the driver name suffix from "-generic" to "-lib" to reflect that
these algorithms now just use the (possibly arch-optimized) library.
This closely mirrors crypto/{md5,sha1,sha256,sha512}.c.
Remove include/crypto/internal/blake2b.h since it is no longer used.
Likewise, remove struct blake2b_state from include/crypto/blake2b.h.
Omit support for import_core and export_core, since there are no legacy
drivers that need these for these algorithms.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-10-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add a library API for BLAKE2b, closely modeled after the BLAKE2s API.
This will allow in-kernel users such as btrfs to use BLAKE2b without
going through the generic crypto layer. In addition, as usual the
BLAKE2b crypto_shash algorithms will be reimplemented on top of this.
Note: to create lib/crypto/blake2b.c I made a copy of
lib/crypto/blake2s.c and made the updates from BLAKE2s => BLAKE2b. This
way, the BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b code is kept consistent. Therefore, it
borrows the SPDX-License-Identifier and Copyright from
lib/crypto/blake2s.c rather than crypto/blake2b_generic.c.
The library API uses 'struct blake2b_ctx', consistent with other
lib/crypto/ APIs. The existing 'struct blake2b_state' will be removed
once the blake2b crypto_shash algorithms are updated to stop using it.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
A couple more small cleanups to the BLAKE2s code before these things get
propagated into the BLAKE2b code:
- Drop 'const' from some non-pointer function parameters. It was a bit
excessive and not conventional.
- Rename 'block' argument of blake2s_compress*() to 'data'. This is for
consistency with the SHA-* code, and also to avoid the implication
that it points to a singular "block".
No functional changes.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
For consistency with the SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3 (in development), and MD5
library APIs, rename blake2s_state to blake2s_ctx.
As a refresher, the ctx name:
- Is a bit shorter.
- Avoids confusion with the compression function state, which is also
often called the state (but is just part of the full context).
- Is consistent with OpenSSL.
Not a big deal, of course. But consistency is nice. With a BLAKE2b
library API about to be added, this is a convenient time to update this.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reorder the parameters of blake2s() from (out, in, key, outlen, inlen,
keylen) to (key, keylen, in, inlen, out, outlen).
This aligns BLAKE2s with the common conventions of pairing buffers and
their lengths, and having outputs follow inputs. This is widely used
elsewhere in lib/crypto/ and crypto/, and even elsewhere in the BLAKE2s
code itself such as blake2s_init_key() and blake2s_final(). So
blake2s() was a bit of an exception.
Notably, this results in the same order as hmac_*_usingrawkey().
Note that since the type signature changed, it's not possible for a
blake2s() call site to be silently missed.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251018043106.375964-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Export drbg_ctr_df() derivative function to new module df_sp80090.
Signed-off-by: Harsh Jain <h.jain@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Drivers:
- Add ciphertext hiding support to ccp.
- Add hashjoin, gather and UDMA data move features to hisilicon.
- Add lz4 and lz77_only to hisilicon.
- Add xilinx hwrng driver.
- Add ti driver with ecb/cbc aes support.
- Add ring buffer idle and command queue telemetry for GEN6 in qat.
Others:
- Use rcu_dereference_all to stop false alarms in rhashtable.
- Fix CPU number wraparound in padata.
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Merge tag 'v6.18-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"Drivers:
- Add ciphertext hiding support to ccp
- Add hashjoin, gather and UDMA data move features to hisilicon
- Add lz4 and lz77_only to hisilicon
- Add xilinx hwrng driver
- Add ti driver with ecb/cbc aes support
- Add ring buffer idle and command queue telemetry for GEN6 in qat
Others:
- Use rcu_dereference_all to stop false alarms in rhashtable
- Fix CPU number wraparound in padata"
* tag 'v6.18-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (78 commits)
dt-bindings: rng: hisi-rng: convert to DT schema
crypto: doc - Add explicit title heading to API docs
hwrng: ks-sa - fix division by zero in ks_sa_rng_init
KEYS: X.509: Fix Basic Constraints CA flag parsing
crypto: anubis - simplify return statement in anubis_mod_init
crypto: hisilicon/qm - set NULL to qm->debug.qm_diff_regs
crypto: hisilicon/qm - clear all VF configurations in the hardware
crypto: hisilicon - enable error reporting again
crypto: hisilicon/qm - mask axi error before memory init
crypto: hisilicon/qm - invalidate queues in use
crypto: qat - Return pointer directly in adf_ctl_alloc_resources
crypto: aspeed - Fix dma_unmap_sg() direction
rhashtable: Use rcu_dereference_all and rcu_dereference_all_check
crypto: comp - Use same definition of context alloc and free ops
crypto: omap - convert from tasklet to BH workqueue
crypto: qat - Replace kzalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()
crypto: caam - double the entropy delay interval for retry
padata: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
padata: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
crypto: cryptd - WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
...
- The 3 patch series "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from
Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap
cluster allocation.
- The 4 patch series "support large align and nid in Rust allocators"
from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large
alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from
Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets
for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters.
- The 3 patch series "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock"
from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps.
- The 2 patch series "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache
checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code.
- The 11 patch series "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code.
- The 5 patch series "add persistent huge zero folio support" from
Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero.
- The 3 patch series "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a
few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature.
- The 10 patch series "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all
arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To
end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with
64-bit's needs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li
cleans up some swap code.
- The 7 patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip
unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests
code.
- The 7 patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide
THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes
to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other
workloads on the system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations.
- The 11 patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox
gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc.
- The 3 patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from
Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path.
- The 5 patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi
Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code.
- The 2 patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang
adds some rmap selftests.
- The 3 patch series "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig
removes that function and converts its two remaining callers.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain
fixes some UFFD selftests issues.
- The 3 patch series "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris
Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these
permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather
than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks.
- The 2 patch series "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some
pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements
to the page allocator code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae
Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem.
- The 4 patch series "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for
vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and
deduplication under tools/testing/.
- The 2 patch series "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from
Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in
tools/testing/radix-tree.c.
- The 2 patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove
arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN
arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral
implementation.
- The 3 patch series "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes
zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc).
- The 2 patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from
Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code.
- The 37 patch series "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand
makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites,
eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function.
- The 2 patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from
Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that
architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode
KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only.
- The 3 patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation"
from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code.
- The 12 patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API
functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This
was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they
attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy.
- The 7 patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola
fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use
free_pages() vs __free_pages().
- The 3 patch series "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice
Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau
and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test:
split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and
some cleanups to the thp selftesting code.
- The 14 patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache
(phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the
path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation
and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space
improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit
in some situations.
- The 3 patch series "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes
the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little.
- The 3 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from
Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code.
- The 2 patch series "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new
memory allocation profiling feature.
- The 3 patch series "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few
cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and
DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in
furtherance of supporting arm highmem.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix
warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code
and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code.
- The 10 patch series "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM
Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements
in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim
threads so they can release resources.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18"
from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization
check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and
maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and
non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to
userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information.
- The 2 patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse"
from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of
anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against
an anon vma.
- The 2 patch series "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in
compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards
removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon
clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from
Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking
of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate.
- The 2 patch series "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters
during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats
inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these
counters.
- The 2 patch series "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei
Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's
mm_slot handling.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
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Linus Torvalds