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<title>crypto: skcipher - Unmap pages after an external error</title>
<updated>2019-10-11T16:18:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2019-09-06T03:13:06+00:00</published>
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commit 0ba3c026e685573bd3534c17e27da7c505ac99c4 upstream.

skcipher_walk_done may be called with an error by internal or
external callers.  For those internal callers we shouldn't unmap
pages but for external callers we must unmap any pages that are
in use.

This patch distinguishes between the two cases by checking whether
walk-&gt;nbytes is zero or not.  For internal callers, we now set
walk-&gt;nbytes to zero prior to the call.  For external callers,
walk-&gt;nbytes has always been non-zero (as zero is used to indicate
the termination of a walk).

Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 5cde0af2a982 ("[CRYPTO] cipher: Added block cipher type")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0ba3c026e685573bd3534c17e27da7c505ac99c4 upstream.

skcipher_walk_done may be called with an error by internal or
external callers.  For those internal callers we shouldn't unmap
pages but for external callers we must unmap any pages that are
in use.

This patch distinguishes between the two cases by checking whether
walk-&gt;nbytes is zero or not.  For internal callers, we now set
walk-&gt;nbytes to zero prior to the call.  For external callers,
walk-&gt;nbytes has always been non-zero (as zero is used to indicate
the termination of a walk).

Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 5cde0af2a982 ("[CRYPTO] cipher: Added block cipher type")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - don't WARN on unprocessed data after slow walk step</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T16:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-31T20:04:15+00:00</published>
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commit dcaca01a42cc2c425154a13412b4124293a6e11e upstream.

skcipher_walk_done() assumes it's a bug if, after the "slow" path is
executed where the next chunk of data is processed via a bounce buffer,
the algorithm says it didn't process all bytes.  Thus it WARNs on this.

However, this can happen legitimately when the message needs to be
evenly divisible into "blocks" but isn't, and the algorithm has a
'walksize' greater than the block size.  For example, ecb-aes-neonbs
sets 'walksize' to 128 bytes and only supports messages evenly divisible
into 16-byte blocks.  If, say, 17 message bytes remain but they straddle
scatterlist elements, the skcipher_walk code will take the "slow" path
and pass the algorithm all 17 bytes in the bounce buffer.  But the
algorithm will only be able to process 16 bytes, triggering the WARN.

Fix this by just removing the WARN_ON().  Returning -EINVAL, as the code
already does, is the right behavior.

This bug was detected by my patches that improve testmgr to fuzz
algorithms against their generic implementation.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dcaca01a42cc2c425154a13412b4124293a6e11e upstream.

skcipher_walk_done() assumes it's a bug if, after the "slow" path is
executed where the next chunk of data is processed via a bounce buffer,
the algorithm says it didn't process all bytes.  Thus it WARNs on this.

However, this can happen legitimately when the message needs to be
evenly divisible into "blocks" but isn't, and the algorithm has a
'walksize' greater than the block size.  For example, ecb-aes-neonbs
sets 'walksize' to 128 bytes and only supports messages evenly divisible
into 16-byte blocks.  If, say, 17 message bytes remain but they straddle
scatterlist elements, the skcipher_walk code will take the "slow" path
and pass the algorithm all 17 bytes in the bounce buffer.  But the
algorithm will only be able to process 16 bytes, triggering the WARN.

Fix this by just removing the WARN_ON().  Returning -EINVAL, as the code
already does, is the right behavior.

This bug was detected by my patches that improve testmgr to fuzz
algorithms against their generic implementation.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - fix crash flushing dcache in error path</title>
<updated>2018-08-17T19:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T17:54:56+00:00</published>
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commit 8088d3dd4d7c6933a65aa169393b5d88d8065672 upstream.

scatterwalk_done() is only meant to be called after a nonzero number of
bytes have been processed, since scatterwalk_pagedone() will flush the
dcache of the *previous* page.  But in the error case of
skcipher_walk_done(), e.g. if the input wasn't an integer number of
blocks, scatterwalk_done() was actually called after advancing 0 bytes.
This caused a crash ("BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request")
during '!PageSlab(page)' on architectures like arm and arm64 that define
ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE, provided that the input was
page-aligned as in that case walk-&gt;offset == 0.

Fix it by reorganizing skcipher_walk_done() to skip the
scatterwalk_advance() and scatterwalk_done() if an error has occurred.

This bug was found by syzkaller fuzzing.

Reproducer, assuming ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE:

	#include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

	int main()
	{
		struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
			.salg_type = "skcipher",
			.salg_name = "cbc(aes-generic)",
		};
		char buffer[4096] __attribute__((aligned(4096))) = { 0 };
		int fd;

		fd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
		bind(fd, (void *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
		setsockopt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, buffer, 16);
		fd = accept(fd, NULL, NULL);
		write(fd, buffer, 15);
		read(fd, buffer, 15);
	}

Reported-by: Liu Chao &lt;liuchao741@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8088d3dd4d7c6933a65aa169393b5d88d8065672 upstream.

scatterwalk_done() is only meant to be called after a nonzero number of
bytes have been processed, since scatterwalk_pagedone() will flush the
dcache of the *previous* page.  But in the error case of
skcipher_walk_done(), e.g. if the input wasn't an integer number of
blocks, scatterwalk_done() was actually called after advancing 0 bytes.
This caused a crash ("BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request")
during '!PageSlab(page)' on architectures like arm and arm64 that define
ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE, provided that the input was
page-aligned as in that case walk-&gt;offset == 0.

Fix it by reorganizing skcipher_walk_done() to skip the
scatterwalk_advance() and scatterwalk_done() if an error has occurred.

This bug was found by syzkaller fuzzing.

Reproducer, assuming ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE:

	#include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

	int main()
	{
		struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
			.salg_type = "skcipher",
			.salg_name = "cbc(aes-generic)",
		};
		char buffer[4096] __attribute__((aligned(4096))) = { 0 };
		int fd;

		fd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
		bind(fd, (void *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
		setsockopt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, buffer, 16);
		fd = accept(fd, NULL, NULL);
		write(fd, buffer, 15);
		read(fd, buffer, 15);
	}

Reported-by: Liu Chao &lt;liuchao741@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - fix aligning block size in skcipher_copy_iv()</title>
<updated>2018-08-17T19:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T16:57:50+00:00</published>
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commit 0567fc9e90b9b1c8dbce8a5468758e6206744d4a upstream.

The ALIGN() macro needs to be passed the alignment, not the alignmask
(which is the alignment minus 1).

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0567fc9e90b9b1c8dbce8a5468758e6206744d4a upstream.

The ALIGN() macro needs to be passed the alignment, not the alignmask
(which is the alignment minus 1).

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - set walk.iv for zero-length inputs</title>
<updated>2017-12-29T16:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-29T09:18:57+00:00</published>
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commit 2b4f27c36bcd46e820ddb9a8e6fe6a63fa4250b8 upstream.

All the ChaCha20 algorithms as well as the ARM bit-sliced AES-XTS
algorithms call skcipher_walk_virt(), then access the IV (walk.iv)
before checking whether any bytes need to be processed (walk.nbytes).

But if the input is empty, then skcipher_walk_virt() doesn't set the IV,
and the algorithms crash trying to use the uninitialized IV pointer.

Fix it by setting the IV earlier in skcipher_walk_virt().  Also fix it
for the AEAD walk functions.

This isn't a perfect solution because we can't actually align the IV to
-&gt;cra_alignmask unless there are bytes to process, for one because the
temporary buffer for the aligned IV is freed by skcipher_walk_done(),
which is only called when there are bytes to process.  Thus, algorithms
that require aligned IVs will still need to avoid accessing the IV when
walk.nbytes == 0.  Still, many algorithms/architectures are fine with
IVs having any alignment, and even for those that aren't, a misaligned
pointer bug is much less severe than an uninitialized pointer bug.

This change also matches the behavior of the older blkcipher_walk API.

Fixes: 0cabf2af6f5a ("crypto: skcipher - Fix crash on zero-length input")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2b4f27c36bcd46e820ddb9a8e6fe6a63fa4250b8 upstream.

All the ChaCha20 algorithms as well as the ARM bit-sliced AES-XTS
algorithms call skcipher_walk_virt(), then access the IV (walk.iv)
before checking whether any bytes need to be processed (walk.nbytes).

But if the input is empty, then skcipher_walk_virt() doesn't set the IV,
and the algorithms crash trying to use the uninitialized IV pointer.

Fix it by setting the IV earlier in skcipher_walk_virt().  Also fix it
for the AEAD walk functions.

This isn't a perfect solution because we can't actually align the IV to
-&gt;cra_alignmask unless there are bytes to process, for one because the
temporary buffer for the aligned IV is freed by skcipher_walk_done(),
which is only called when there are bytes to process.  Thus, algorithms
that require aligned IVs will still need to avoid accessing the IV when
walk.nbytes == 0.  Still, many algorithms/architectures are fine with
IVs having any alignment, and even for those that aren't, a misaligned
pointer bug is much less severe than an uninitialized pointer bug.

This change also matches the behavior of the older blkcipher_walk API.

Fixes: 0cabf2af6f5a ("crypto: skcipher - Fix crash on zero-length input")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - Fix skcipher_walk_aead_common</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnáček</name>
<email>omosnacek@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-23T12:49:06+00:00</published>
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commit c14ca8386539a298c1c19b003fe55e37d0f0e89c upstream.

The skcipher_walk_aead_common function calls scatterwalk_copychunks on
the input and output walks to skip the associated data. If the AD end
at an SG list entry boundary, then after these calls the walks will
still be pointing to the end of the skipped region.

These offsets are later checked for alignment in skcipher_walk_next,
so the skcipher_walk may detect the alignment incorrectly.

This patch fixes it by calling scatterwalk_done after the copychunks
calls to ensure that the offsets refer to the right SG list entry.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnacek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c14ca8386539a298c1c19b003fe55e37d0f0e89c upstream.

The skcipher_walk_aead_common function calls scatterwalk_copychunks on
the input and output walks to skip the associated data. If the AD end
at an SG list entry boundary, then after these calls the walks will
still be pointing to the end of the skipped region.

These offsets are later checked for alignment in skcipher_walk_next,
so the skcipher_walk may detect the alignment incorrectly.

This patch fixes it by calling scatterwalk_done after the copychunks
calls to ensure that the offsets refer to the right SG list entry.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk interface")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnacek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - Fix crash on zero-length input</title>
<updated>2017-10-07T04:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-07T03:29:48+00:00</published>
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The skcipher walk interface doesn't handle zero-length input
properly as the old blkcipher walk interface did.  This is due
to the fact that the length check is done too late.

This patch moves the length check forward so that it does the
right thing.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stephan Müller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The skcipher walk interface doesn't handle zero-length input
properly as the old blkcipher walk interface did.  This is due
to the fact that the length check is done too late.

This patch moves the length check forward so that it does the
right thing.

Fixes: b286d8b1a690 ("crypto: skcipher - Add skcipher walk...")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stephan Müller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks</title>
<updated>2017-05-18T05:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T19:48:23+00:00</published>
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The API setkey checks for key sizes and alignment went AWOL during the
skcipher conversion.  This patch restores them.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 4e6c3df4d729 ("crypto: skcipher - Add low-level skcipher...")
Reported-by: Baozeng &lt;sploving1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The API setkey checks for key sizes and alignment went AWOL during the
skcipher conversion.  This patch restores them.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 4e6c3df4d729 ("crypto: skcipher - Add low-level skcipher...")
Reported-by: Baozeng &lt;sploving1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: Replaced gcc specific attributes with macros from compiler.h</title>
<updated>2017-01-12T16:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gideon Israel Dsouza</name>
<email>gidisrael@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-31T15:56:23+00:00</published>
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Continuing from this commit: 52f5684c8e1e
("kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))")

I submitted 4 total patches. They are part of task I've taken up to
increase compiler portability in the kernel. I've cleaned up the
subsystems under /kernel /mm /block and /security, this patch targets
/crypto.

There is &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; which provides macros for various gcc specific
constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've cleaned all
instances of gcc specific attributes with the right macros for the crypto
subsystem.

I had to make one additional change into compiler-gcc.h for the case when
one wants to use this: __attribute__((aligned) and not specify an alignment
factor. From the gcc docs, this will result in the largest alignment for
that data type on the target machine so I've named the macro
__aligned_largest. Please advise if another name is more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza &lt;gidisrael@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Continuing from this commit: 52f5684c8e1e
("kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))")

I submitted 4 total patches. They are part of task I've taken up to
increase compiler portability in the kernel. I've cleaned up the
subsystems under /kernel /mm /block and /security, this patch targets
/crypto.

There is &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; which provides macros for various gcc specific
constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've cleaned all
instances of gcc specific attributes with the right macros for the crypto
subsystem.

I had to make one additional change into compiler-gcc.h for the case when
one wants to use this: __attribute__((aligned) and not specify an alignment
factor. From the gcc docs, this will result in the largest alignment for
that data type on the target machine so I've named the macro
__aligned_largest. Please advise if another name is more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza &lt;gidisrael@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: skcipher - introduce walksize attribute for SIMD algos</title>
<updated>2016-12-30T11:52:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2016-12-29T14:09:08+00:00</published>
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In some cases, SIMD algorithms can only perform optimally when
allowed to operate on multiple input blocks in parallel. This is
especially true for bit slicing algorithms, which typically take
the same amount of time processing a single block or 8 blocks in
parallel. However, other SIMD algorithms may benefit as well from
bigger strides.

So add a walksize attribute to the skcipher algorithm definition, and
wire it up to the skcipher walk API. To avoid confusion between the
skcipher and AEAD attributes, rename the skcipher_walk chunksize
attribute to 'stride', and set it from the walksize (in the skcipher
case) or from the chunksize (in the AEAD case).

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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In some cases, SIMD algorithms can only perform optimally when
allowed to operate on multiple input blocks in parallel. This is
especially true for bit slicing algorithms, which typically take
the same amount of time processing a single block or 8 blocks in
parallel. However, other SIMD algorithms may benefit as well from
bigger strides.

So add a walksize attribute to the skcipher algorithm definition, and
wire it up to the skcipher walk API. To avoid confusion between the
skcipher and AEAD attributes, rename the skcipher_walk chunksize
attribute to 'stride', and set it from the walksize (in the skcipher
case) or from the chunksize (in the AEAD case).

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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