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<title>crypto: testmgr - reinstate kconfig control over full self-tests</title>
<updated>2025-06-13T09:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2025-06-12T17:47:09+00:00</published>
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Commit 698de822780f ("crypto: testmgr - make it easier to enable the
full set of tests") removed support for building kernels that run only
the "fast" set of crypto self-tests by default.  This assumed that
nearly everyone actually wanted the full set of tests, *if* they had
already chosen to enable the tests at all.

Unfortunately, it turns out that both Debian and Fedora intentionally
have the crypto self-tests enabled in their production kernels.  And for
production kernels we do need to keep the testing time down, which
implies just running the "fast" tests, not the full set of tests.

For Fedora, a reason for enabling the tests in production is that they
are being (mis)used to meet the FIPS 140-3 pre-operational testing
requirement.

However, the other reason for enabling the tests in production, which
applies to both distros, is that they provide some value in protecting
users from buggy drivers.  Unfortunately, the crypto/ subsystem has many
buggy and untested drivers for off-CPU hardware accelerators on rare
platforms.  These broken drivers get shipped to users, and there have
been multiple examples of the tests preventing these buggy drivers from
being used.  So effectively, the tests are being relied on in production
kernels.  I think this is kind of crazy (untested drivers should just
not be enabled at all), but that seems to be how things work currently.

Thus, reintroduce a kconfig option that controls the level of testing.
Call it CRYPTO_SELFTESTS_FULL instead of the original name
CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS, which was slightly misleading.

Moreover, given the "production kernel" use case, make CRYPTO_SELFTESTS
depend on EXPERT instead of DEBUG_KERNEL.

I also haven't reinstated all the #ifdefs in crypto/testmgr.c.  Instead,
just rely on the compiler to optimize out unused code.

Fixes: 40b9969796bf ("crypto: testmgr - replace CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS with CRYPTO_SELFTESTS")
Fixes: 698de822780f ("crypto: testmgr - make it easier to enable the full set of tests")
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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Commit 698de822780f ("crypto: testmgr - make it easier to enable the
full set of tests") removed support for building kernels that run only
the "fast" set of crypto self-tests by default.  This assumed that
nearly everyone actually wanted the full set of tests, *if* they had
already chosen to enable the tests at all.

Unfortunately, it turns out that both Debian and Fedora intentionally
have the crypto self-tests enabled in their production kernels.  And for
production kernels we do need to keep the testing time down, which
implies just running the "fast" tests, not the full set of tests.

For Fedora, a reason for enabling the tests in production is that they
are being (mis)used to meet the FIPS 140-3 pre-operational testing
requirement.

However, the other reason for enabling the tests in production, which
applies to both distros, is that they provide some value in protecting
users from buggy drivers.  Unfortunately, the crypto/ subsystem has many
buggy and untested drivers for off-CPU hardware accelerators on rare
platforms.  These broken drivers get shipped to users, and there have
been multiple examples of the tests preventing these buggy drivers from
being used.  So effectively, the tests are being relied on in production
kernels.  I think this is kind of crazy (untested drivers should just
not be enabled at all), but that seems to be how things work currently.

Thus, reintroduce a kconfig option that controls the level of testing.
Call it CRYPTO_SELFTESTS_FULL instead of the original name
CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS, which was slightly misleading.

Moreover, given the "production kernel" use case, make CRYPTO_SELFTESTS
depend on EXPERT instead of DEBUG_KERNEL.

I also haven't reinstated all the #ifdefs in crypto/testmgr.c.  Instead,
just rely on the compiler to optimize out unused code.

Fixes: 40b9969796bf ("crypto: testmgr - replace CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS with CRYPTO_SELFTESTS")
Fixes: 698de822780f ("crypto: testmgr - make it easier to enable the full set of tests")
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: testmgr - enable CRYPTO_MANAGER when CRYPTO_SELFTESTS</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:34:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T20:33:45+00:00</published>
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crypto/testmgr.c is compiled only when CRYPTO_MANAGER is enabled.  To
make CRYPTO_SELFTESTS work as expected when CRYPTO_MANAGER doesn't get
enabled for another reason, automatically set CRYPTO_MANAGER to the
value of CRYPTO_ALGAPI when CRYPTO_SELFTESTS is enabled.

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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crypto/testmgr.c is compiled only when CRYPTO_MANAGER is enabled.  To
make CRYPTO_SELFTESTS work as expected when CRYPTO_MANAGER doesn't get
enabled for another reason, automatically set CRYPTO_MANAGER to the
value of CRYPTO_ALGAPI when CRYPTO_SELFTESTS is enabled.

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: Kconfig - make CRYPTO_MANAGER a hidden symbol</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T20:33:44+00:00</published>
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There is no reason for people configuring the kernel to be asked about
CRYPTO_MANAGER, so make it a hidden symbol.

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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There is no reason for people configuring the kernel to be asked about
CRYPTO_MANAGER, so make it a hidden symbol.

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: testmgr - make it easier to enable the full set of tests</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T20:33:42+00:00</published>
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Currently the full set of crypto self-tests requires
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y.  This is problematic in two ways.
First, developers regularly overlook this option.  Second, the
description of the tests as "extra" sometimes gives the impression that
it is not required that all algorithms pass these tests.

Given that the main use case for the crypto self-tests is for
developers, make enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_SELFTESTS=y just enable the full
set of crypto self-tests by default.

The slow tests can still be disabled by adding the command-line
parameter cryptomgr.noextratests=1, soon to be renamed to
cryptomgr.noslowtests=1.  The only known use case for doing this is for
people trying to use the crypto self-tests to satisfy the FIPS 140-3
pre-operational self-testing requirements when the kernel is being
validated as a FIPS 140-3 cryptographic module.

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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Currently the full set of crypto self-tests requires
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y.  This is problematic in two ways.
First, developers regularly overlook this option.  Second, the
description of the tests as "extra" sometimes gives the impression that
it is not required that all algorithms pass these tests.

Given that the main use case for the crypto self-tests is for
developers, make enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_SELFTESTS=y just enable the full
set of crypto self-tests by default.

The slow tests can still be disabled by adding the command-line
parameter cryptomgr.noextratests=1, soon to be renamed to
cryptomgr.noslowtests=1.  The only known use case for doing this is for
people trying to use the crypto self-tests to satisfy the FIPS 140-3
pre-operational self-testing requirements when the kernel is being
validated as a FIPS 140-3 cryptographic module.

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: testmgr - replace CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS with CRYPTO_SELFTESTS</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T20:33:41+00:00</published>
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The negative-sense of CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is a longstanding
mistake that regularly causes confusion.  Especially bad is that you can
have CRYPTO=n &amp;&amp; CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS=n, which is ambiguous.

Replace CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS with CRYPTO_SELFTESTS which has the
expected behavior.

The tests continue to be disabled by default.

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 negative-sense of CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is a longstanding
mistake that regularly causes confusion.  Especially bad is that you can
have CRYPTO=n &amp;&amp; CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS=n, which is ambiguous.

Replace CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS with CRYPTO_SELFTESTS which has the
expected behavior.

The tests continue to be disabled by default.

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: tcrypt - rename CRYPTO_TEST to CRYPTO_BENCHMARK</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T20:33:39+00:00</published>
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tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests.  This
regularly causes confusion.  Update the kconfig option name and help
text accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&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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tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests.  This
regularly causes confusion.  Update the kconfig option name and help
text accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&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>
<title>crypto: null - merge CRYPTO_NULL2 into CRYPTO_NULL</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T19:10:44+00:00</published>
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There is no reason to have separate CRYPTO_NULL2 and CRYPTO_NULL
options.  Just merge them into CRYPTO_NULL.

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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There is no reason to have separate CRYPTO_NULL2 and CRYPTO_NULL
options.  Just merge them into CRYPTO_NULL.

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: krb5enc - do not select CRYPTO_NULL</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T19:10:42+00:00</published>
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The krb5enc code does not use any of the so-called "null algorithms", so
it does not need to select CRYPTO_NULL.  Presumably this unused
dependency got copied from one of the other kconfig options.

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 krb5enc code does not use any of the so-called "null algorithms", so
it does not need to select CRYPTO_NULL.  Presumably this unused
dependency got copied from one of the other kconfig options.

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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<entry>
<title>crypto: geniv - use memcpy_sglist() instead of null skcipher</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T19:10:41+00:00</published>
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For copying data between two scatterlists, just use memcpy_sglist()
instead of the so-called "null skcipher".  This is much simpler.

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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For copying data between two scatterlists, just use memcpy_sglist()
instead of the so-called "null skcipher".  This is much simpler.

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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<entry>
<title>crypto: gcm - use memcpy_sglist() instead of null skcipher</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T05:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T19:10:40+00:00</published>
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For copying data between two scatterlists, just use memcpy_sglist()
instead of the so-called "null skcipher".  This is much simpler.

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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For copying data between two scatterlists, just use memcpy_sglist()
instead of the so-called "null skcipher".  This is much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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