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<title>crypto: api - Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into crypto_create_tfm_node()</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T00:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-22T05:30:28+00:00</published>
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Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into its only remaining caller,
crypto_create_tfm_node().  Previously crypto_alloc_tfmmem() was called
by crypto_clone_tfm(), but crypto_clone_tfm() was removed.

This rolls back the refactoring that was done in commit 3c3a24cb0ae4
("crypto: api - Add crypto_clone_tfm").

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into its only remaining caller,
crypto_create_tfm_node().  Previously crypto_alloc_tfmmem() was called
by crypto_clone_tfm(), but crypto_clone_tfm() was removed.

This rolls back the refactoring that was done in commit 3c3a24cb0ae4
("crypto: api - Add crypto_clone_tfm").

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>crypto: api - Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into __crypto_alloc_tfm()</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T00:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-22T05:30:27+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit fa3b3565f3ac ("crypto: api - Add
__crypto_alloc_tfmgfp").

Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into its only remaining caller,
__crypto_alloc_tfm().  Previously __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() was called by
crypto_clone_cipher(), but crypto_clone_cipher() was removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit fa3b3565f3ac ("crypto: api - Add
__crypto_alloc_tfmgfp").

Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into its only remaining caller,
__crypto_alloc_tfm().  Previously __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() was called by
crypto_clone_cipher(), but crypto_clone_cipher() was removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>crypto: api - Remove per-tfm refcount</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T00:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-22T05:30:26+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit ae131f4970f0 ("crypto: api - Add crypto_tfm_get").

The refcount in struct crypto_tfm was added solely to support
crypto_clone_tfm().  Before then it was a simple non-refcounted object.

Since crypto_clone_tfm() has been removed, remove the refcount as well.

Note that this eliminates an expensive atomic operation from every tfm
freeing operation.  So this revert doesn't just remove unused code, but
it also fixes a performance regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit ae131f4970f0 ("crypto: api - Add crypto_tfm_get").

The refcount in struct crypto_tfm was added solely to support
crypto_clone_tfm().  Before then it was a simple non-refcounted object.

Since crypto_clone_tfm() has been removed, remove the refcount as well.

Note that this eliminates an expensive atomic operation from every tfm
freeing operation.  So this revert doesn't just remove unused code, but
it also fixes a performance regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>crypto: api - Remove crypto_clone_tfm()</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T00:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-22T05:30:25+00:00</published>
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Since all callers of crypto_clone_tfm() have been removed, remove it.

Note that no tests need to be removed, as this function had no tests.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Since all callers of crypto_clone_tfm() have been removed, remove it.

Note that no tests need to be removed, as this function had no tests.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522053028.91165-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: Enable context analysis</title>
<updated>2026-01-05T15:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-19T15:40:24+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-36-elver@google.com
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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 &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-36-elver@google.com
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<entry>
<title>crypto: api - Redo lookup on EEXIST</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T11:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-19T10:29:38+00:00</published>
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When two crypto algorithm lookups occur at the same time with
different names for the same algorithm, e.g., ctr(aes-generic)
and ctr(aes), they will both be instantiated.  However, only one
of them can be registered.  The second instantiation will fail
with EEXIST.

Avoid failing the second lookup by making it retry, but only once
because there are tricky names such as gcm_base(ctr(aes),ghash)
that will always fail, despite triggering instantiation and EEXIST.

Reported-by: Ingo Franzki &lt;ifranzki@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 2825982d9d66 ("[CRYPTO] api: Added event notification")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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When two crypto algorithm lookups occur at the same time with
different names for the same algorithm, e.g., ctr(aes-generic)
and ctr(aes), they will both be instantiated.  However, only one
of them can be registered.  The second instantiation will fail
with EEXIST.

Avoid failing the second lookup by making it retry, but only once
because there are tricky names such as gcm_base(ctr(aes),ghash)
that will always fail, despite triggering instantiation and EEXIST.

Reported-by: Ingo Franzki &lt;ifranzki@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 2825982d9d66 ("[CRYPTO] api: Added event notification")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<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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<entry>
<title>crypto: hash - Fix clone error handling</title>
<updated>2025-04-28T11:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-23T09:22:31+00:00</published>
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Do not copy the exit function in crypto_clone_tfm as it should
only be set after init_tfm or clone_tfm has succeeded.

Move the setting into crypto_clone_ahash and crypto_clone_shash
instead.

Also clone the fb if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Do not copy the exit function in crypto_clone_tfm as it should
only be set after init_tfm or clone_tfm has succeeded.

Move the setting into crypto_clone_ahash and crypto_clone_shash
instead.

Also clone the fb if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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