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<title>linux-stable.git/crypto/vmac.c, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>crypto: vmac - remove unused VMAC algorithm</title>
<updated>2025-01-04T00:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-26T19:43:08+00:00</published>
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Remove the vmac64 template, as it has no known users.  It also continues
to have longstanding bugs such as alignment violations (see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241226134847.6690-1-evepolonium@gmail.com/).

This code was added in 2009 by commit f1939f7c5645 ("crypto: vmac - New
hash algorithm for intel_txt support").  Based on the mention of
intel_txt support in the commit title, it seems it was added as a
prerequisite for the contemporaneous patch
"intel_txt: add s3 userspace memory integrity verification"
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ABF2B50.6070106@intel.com/).  In the design
proposed by that patch, when an Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)
enabled system resumed from suspend, the "tboot" trusted executable
launched the Linux kernel without verifying userspace memory, and then
the Linux kernel used VMAC to verify userspace memory.

However, that patch was never merged, as reviewers had objected to the
design.  It was later reworked into commit 4bd96a7a8185 ("x86, tboot:
Add support for S3 memory integrity protection") which made tboot verify
the memory instead.  Thus the VMAC support in Linux was never used.

No in-tree user has appeared since then, other than potentially the
usual components that allow specifying arbitrary hash algorithms by
name, namely AF_ALG and dm-integrity.  However there are no indications
that VMAC is being used with these components.  Debian Code Search and
web searches for "vmac64" (the actual algorithm name) do not return any
results other than the kernel itself, suggesting that it does not appear
in any other code or documentation.  Explicitly grepping the source code
of the usual suspects (libell, iwd, cryptsetup) finds no matches either.

Before 2018, the vmac code was also completely broken due to using a
hardcoded nonce and the wrong endianness for the MAC.  It was then fixed
by commit ed331adab35b ("crypto: vmac - add nonced version with big
endian digest") and commit 0917b873127c ("crypto: vmac - remove insecure
version with hardcoded nonce").  These were intentionally breaking
changes that changed all the computed MAC values as well as the
algorithm name ("vmac" to "vmac64").  No complaints were ever received
about these breaking changes, strongly suggesting the absence of users.

The reason I had put some effort into fixing this code in 2018 is
because it was used by an out-of-tree driver.  But if it is still needed
in that particular out-of-tree driver, the code can be carried in that
driver instead.  There is no need to carry it upstream.

Cc: Atharva Tiwari &lt;evepolonium@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Remove the vmac64 template, as it has no known users.  It also continues
to have longstanding bugs such as alignment violations (see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241226134847.6690-1-evepolonium@gmail.com/).

This code was added in 2009 by commit f1939f7c5645 ("crypto: vmac - New
hash algorithm for intel_txt support").  Based on the mention of
intel_txt support in the commit title, it seems it was added as a
prerequisite for the contemporaneous patch
"intel_txt: add s3 userspace memory integrity verification"
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ABF2B50.6070106@intel.com/).  In the design
proposed by that patch, when an Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)
enabled system resumed from suspend, the "tboot" trusted executable
launched the Linux kernel without verifying userspace memory, and then
the Linux kernel used VMAC to verify userspace memory.

However, that patch was never merged, as reviewers had objected to the
design.  It was later reworked into commit 4bd96a7a8185 ("x86, tboot:
Add support for S3 memory integrity protection") which made tboot verify
the memory instead.  Thus the VMAC support in Linux was never used.

No in-tree user has appeared since then, other than potentially the
usual components that allow specifying arbitrary hash algorithms by
name, namely AF_ALG and dm-integrity.  However there are no indications
that VMAC is being used with these components.  Debian Code Search and
web searches for "vmac64" (the actual algorithm name) do not return any
results other than the kernel itself, suggesting that it does not appear
in any other code or documentation.  Explicitly grepping the source code
of the usual suspects (libell, iwd, cryptsetup) finds no matches either.

Before 2018, the vmac code was also completely broken due to using a
hardcoded nonce and the wrong endianness for the MAC.  It was then fixed
by commit ed331adab35b ("crypto: vmac - add nonced version with big
endian digest") and commit 0917b873127c ("crypto: vmac - remove insecure
version with hardcoded nonce").  These were intentionally breaking
changes that changed all the computed MAC values as well as the
algorithm name ("vmac" to "vmac64").  No complaints were ever received
about these breaking changes, strongly suggesting the absence of users.

The reason I had put some effort into fixing this code in 2018 is
because it was used by an out-of-tree driver.  But if it is still needed
in that particular out-of-tree driver, the code can be carried in that
driver instead.  There is no need to carry it upstream.

Cc: Atharva Tiwari &lt;evepolonium@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shane Wang &lt;shane.wang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T19:34:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T14:59:47+00:00</published>
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Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of
commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the
namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.

Scripted using

  git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file;
  do
    awk -i inplace '
      /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS\(([^)]*)\)/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g");
      }
      /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+),/) {
  	if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /^my/) {
  	  getline line;
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, "");
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line);
  	  $0 = $0 " " line;
  	}

  	$0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/,
  		    "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g");
        }
      }
      { print }' $file;
  done

Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of
commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the
namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.

Scripted using

  git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file;
  do
    awk -i inplace '
      /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS\(([^)]*)\)/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g");
      }
      /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+),/) {
  	if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /^my/) {
  	  getline line;
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, "");
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line);
  	  $0 = $0 " " line;
  	}

  	$0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/,
  		    "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g");
        }
      }
      { print }' $file;
  done

Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: vmac - don't set alignmask</title>
<updated>2023-10-27T10:04:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T05:53:35+00:00</published>
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The vmac template is setting its alignmask to that of its underlying
'cipher'.  This doesn't actually accomplish anything useful, though, so
stop doing it.  (vmac_update() does have an alignment bug, where it
assumes u64 alignment when it shouldn't, but that bug exists both before
and after this patch.)  This is a prerequisite for removing support for
nonzero alignmasks from shash.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The vmac template is setting its alignmask to that of its underlying
'cipher'.  This doesn't actually accomplish anything useful, though, so
stop doing it.  (vmac_update() does have an alignment bug, where it
assumes u64 alignment when it shouldn't, but that bug exists both before
and after this patch.)  This is a prerequisite for removing support for
nonzero alignmasks from shash.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: remove cipher routines from public crypto API</title>
<updated>2021-01-02T21:41:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-11T12:27:15+00:00</published>
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The cipher routines in the crypto API are mostly intended for templates
implementing skcipher modes generically in software, and shouldn't be
used outside of the crypto subsystem. So move the prototypes and all
related definitions to a new header file under include/crypto/internal.
Also, let's use the new module namespace feature to move the symbol
exports into a new namespace CRYPTO_INTERNAL.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The cipher routines in the crypto API are mostly intended for templates
implementing skcipher modes generically in software, and shouldn't be
used outside of the crypto subsystem. So move the prototypes and all
related definitions to a new header file under include/crypto/internal.
Also, let's use the new module namespace feature to move the symbol
exports into a new namespace CRYPTO_INTERNAL.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: algapi - use common mechanism for inheriting flags</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T11:49:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-10T06:20:38+00:00</published>
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The flag CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC is "inherited" in the sense that when a
template is instantiated, the template will have CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set if
any of the algorithms it uses has CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set.

We'd like to add a second flag (CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY) that gets
"inherited" in the same way.  This is difficult because the handling of
CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC is hardcoded everywhere.  Address this by:

  - Add CRYPTO_ALG_INHERITED_FLAGS, which contains the set of flags that
    have these inheritance semantics.

  - Add crypto_algt_inherited_mask(), for use by template -&gt;create()
    methods.  It returns any of these flags that the user asked to be
    unset and thus must be passed in the 'mask' to crypto_grab_*().

  - Also modify crypto_check_attr_type() to handle computing the 'mask'
    so that most templates can just use this.

  - Make crypto_grab_*() propagate these flags to the template instance
    being created so that templates don't have to do this themselves.

Make crypto/simd.c propagate these flags too, since it "wraps" another
algorithm, similar to a template.

Based on a patch by Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.2006301414580.30526@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The flag CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC is "inherited" in the sense that when a
template is instantiated, the template will have CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set if
any of the algorithms it uses has CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set.

We'd like to add a second flag (CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY) that gets
"inherited" in the same way.  This is difficult because the handling of
CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC is hardcoded everywhere.  Address this by:

  - Add CRYPTO_ALG_INHERITED_FLAGS, which contains the set of flags that
    have these inheritance semantics.

  - Add crypto_algt_inherited_mask(), for use by template -&gt;create()
    methods.  It returns any of these flags that the user asked to be
    unset and thus must be passed in the 'mask' to crypto_grab_*().

  - Also modify crypto_check_attr_type() to handle computing the 'mask'
    so that most templates can just use this.

  - Make crypto_grab_*() propagate these flags to the template instance
    being created so that templates don't have to do this themselves.

Make crypto/simd.c propagate these flags too, since it "wraps" another
algorithm, similar to a template.

Based on a patch by Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.2006301414580.30526@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: shash - convert shash_free_instance() to new style</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T03:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-03T04:04:38+00:00</published>
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Convert shash_free_instance() and its users to the new way of freeing
instances, where a -&gt;free() method is installed to the instance struct
itself.  This replaces the weakly-typed method crypto_template::free().

This will allow removing support for the old way of freeing instances.

Also give shash_free_instance() a more descriptive name to reflect that
it's only for instances with a single spawn, not for any instance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Convert shash_free_instance() and its users to the new way of freeing
instances, where a -&gt;free() method is installed to the instance struct
itself.  This replaces the weakly-typed method crypto_template::free().

This will allow removing support for the old way of freeing instances.

Also give shash_free_instance() a more descriptive name to reflect that
it's only for instances with a single spawn, not for any instance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: cipher - make crypto_spawn_cipher() take a crypto_cipher_spawn</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T03:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-03T03:59:05+00:00</published>
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Now that all users of single-block cipher spawns have been converted to
use 'struct crypto_cipher_spawn' rather than the less specifically typed
'struct crypto_spawn', make crypto_spawn_cipher() take a pointer to a
'struct crypto_cipher_spawn' rather than a 'struct crypto_spawn'.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<pre>
Now that all users of single-block cipher spawns have been converted to
use 'struct crypto_cipher_spawn' rather than the less specifically typed
'struct crypto_spawn', make crypto_spawn_cipher() take a pointer to a
'struct crypto_cipher_spawn' rather than a 'struct crypto_spawn'.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: vmac - use crypto_grab_cipher() and simplify error paths</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T03:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-03T03:59:03+00:00</published>
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Make the vmac64 template use the new function crypto_grab_cipher() to
initialize its cipher spawn.

This is needed to make all spawns be initialized in a consistent way.

This required making vmac_create() allocate the instance directly rather
than use shash_alloc_instance().

Also simplify the error handling by taking advantage of crypto_drop_*()
now accepting (as a no-op) spawns that haven't been initialized yet, and
by taking advantage of crypto_grab_*() now handling ERR_PTR() names.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Make the vmac64 template use the new function crypto_grab_cipher() to
initialize its cipher spawn.

This is needed to make all spawns be initialized in a consistent way.

This required making vmac_create() allocate the instance directly rather
than use shash_alloc_instance().

Also simplify the error handling by taking advantage of crypto_drop_*()
now accepting (as a no-op) spawns that haven't been initialized yet, and
by taking advantage of crypto_grab_*() now handling ERR_PTR() names.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: remove CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T03:30:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2019-12-31T03:19:36+00:00</published>
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The CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN flag was apparently meant as a way to
make the -&gt;setkey() functions provide more information about errors.

However, no one actually checks for this flag, which makes it pointless.

Also, many algorithms fail to set this flag when given a bad length key.
Reviewing just the generic implementations, this is the case for
aes-fixed-time, cbcmac, echainiv, nhpoly1305, pcrypt, rfc3686, rfc4309,
rfc7539, rfc7539esp, salsa20, seqiv, and xcbc.  But there are probably
many more in arch/*/crypto/ and drivers/crypto/.

Some algorithms can even set this flag when the key is the correct
length.  For example, authenc and authencesn set it when the key payload
is malformed in any way (not just a bad length), the atmel-sha and ccree
drivers can set it if a memory allocation fails, and the chelsio driver
sets it for bad auth tag lengths, not just bad key lengths.

So even if someone actually wanted to start checking this flag (which
seems unlikely, since it's been unused for a long time), there would be
a lot of work needed to get it working correctly.  But it would probably
be much better to go back to the drawing board and just define different
return values, like -EINVAL if the key is invalid for the algorithm vs.
-EKEYREJECTED if the key was rejected by a policy like "no weak keys".
That would be much simpler, less error-prone, and easier to test.

So just remove this flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă &lt;horia.geanta@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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The CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN flag was apparently meant as a way to
make the -&gt;setkey() functions provide more information about errors.

However, no one actually checks for this flag, which makes it pointless.

Also, many algorithms fail to set this flag when given a bad length key.
Reviewing just the generic implementations, this is the case for
aes-fixed-time, cbcmac, echainiv, nhpoly1305, pcrypt, rfc3686, rfc4309,
rfc7539, rfc7539esp, salsa20, seqiv, and xcbc.  But there are probably
many more in arch/*/crypto/ and drivers/crypto/.

Some algorithms can even set this flag when the key is the correct
length.  For example, authenc and authencesn set it when the key payload
is malformed in any way (not just a bad length), the atmel-sha and ccree
drivers can set it if a memory allocation fails, and the chelsio driver
sets it for bad auth tag lengths, not just bad key lengths.

So even if someone actually wanted to start checking this flag (which
seems unlikely, since it's been unused for a long time), there would be
a lot of work needed to get it working correctly.  But it would probably
be much better to go back to the drawing board and just define different
return values, like -EINVAL if the key is invalid for the algorithm vs.
-EKEYREJECTED if the key was rejected by a policy like "no weak keys".
That would be much simpler, less error-prone, and easier to test.

So just remove this flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă &lt;horia.geanta@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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