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<title>linux-toradex.git/crypto/algapi.c, branch v2.6.30-rc8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>crypto: api - Fix algorithm test race that broke aead initialisation</title>
<updated>2009-01-28T03:09:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2009-01-28T03:09:59+00:00</published>
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When we complete a test we'll notify everyone waiting on it, drop
the mutex, and then remove the test larval (after reacquiring the
mutex).  If one of the notified parties tries to register another
algorithm with the same driver name prior to the removal of the
test larval, they will fail with EEXIST as only one algorithm of
a given name can be tested at any time.

This broke the initialisation of aead and givcipher algorithms as
they will register two algorithms with the same driver name, in
sequence.

This patch fixes the problem by marking the larval as dead before
we drop the mutex, and also ignoring all dead or dying algorithms
on the registration path.

Tested-by: Andreas Steffen &lt;andreas.steffen@strongswan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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When we complete a test we'll notify everyone waiting on it, drop
the mutex, and then remove the test larval (after reacquiring the
mutex).  If one of the notified parties tries to register another
algorithm with the same driver name prior to the removal of the
test larval, they will fail with EEXIST as only one algorithm of
a given name can be tested at any time.

This broke the initialisation of aead and givcipher algorithms as
they will register two algorithms with the same driver name, in
sequence.

This patch fixes the problem by marking the larval as dead before
we drop the mutex, and also ignoring all dead or dying algorithms
on the registration path.

Tested-by: Andreas Steffen &lt;andreas.steffen@strongswan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: api - Use test infrastructure</title>
<updated>2008-08-29T05:49:57+00:00</updated>
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<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2008-08-03T13:15:23+00:00</published>
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This patch makes use of the new testing infrastructure by requiring
algorithms to pass a run-time test before they're made available to
users.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch makes use of the new testing infrastructure by requiring
algorithms to pass a run-time test before they're made available to
users.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>crypto: api - Export crypto_alg_lookup instead of __crypto_alg_lookup</title>
<updated>2008-08-29T05:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2008-08-04T03:44:59+00:00</published>
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Since the only user of __crypto_alg_lookup is doing exactly what
crypto_alg_lookup does, we can now the latter in lieu of the former.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Since the only user of __crypto_alg_lookup is doing exactly what
crypto_alg_lookup does, we can now the latter in lieu of the former.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_attr_alg_name</title>
<updated>2008-01-10T21:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2007-12-07T12:18:17+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new helper crypto_attr_alg_name which is basically the
first half of crypto_attr_alg.  That is, it returns an algorithm name
parameter as a string without looking it up.  The caller can then look it
up immediately or defer it until later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch adds a new helper crypto_attr_alg_name which is basically the
first half of crypto_attr_alg.  That is, it returns an algorithm name
parameter as a string without looking it up.  The caller can then look it
up immediately or defer it until later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_inc and crypto_xor</title>
<updated>2008-01-10T21:16:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-20T09:26:06+00:00</published>
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With the addition of more stream ciphers we need to curb the proliferation
of ad-hoc xor functions.  This patch creates a generic pair of functions,
crypto_inc and crypto_xor which does big-endian increment and exclusive or,
respectively.

For optimum performance, they both use u32 operations so alignment must be
as that of u32 even though the arguments are of type u8 *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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With the addition of more stream ciphers we need to curb the proliferation
of ad-hoc xor functions.  This patch creates a generic pair of functions,
crypto_inc and crypto_xor which does big-endian increment and exclusive or,
respectively.

For optimum performance, they both use u32 operations so alignment must be
as that of u32 even though the arguments are of type u8 *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] api: Fix potential race in crypto_remove_spawn</title>
<updated>2007-11-23T11:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-17T14:09:38+00:00</published>
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As it is crypto_remove_spawn may try to unregister an instance which is
yet to be registered.  This patch fixes this by checking whether the
instance has been registered before attempting to remove it.

It also removes a bogus cra_destroy check in crypto_register_instance as
1) it's outside the mutex;
2) we have a check in __crypto_register_alg already.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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As it is crypto_remove_spawn may try to unregister an instance which is
yet to be registered.  This patch fixes this by checking whether the
instance has been registered before attempting to remove it.

It also removes a bogus cra_destroy check in crypto_register_instance as
1) it's outside the mutex;
2) we have a check in __crypto_register_alg already.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] api: Explain the comparison on larval cra_name</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-02T14:27:29+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a comment to explain why we compare the cra_driver_name of
the algorithm being registered against the cra_name of a larval as opposed
to the cra_driver_name of the larval.

In fact larvals have only one name, cra_name which is the name that was
requested by the user.  The test here is simply trying to find out whether
the algorithm being registered can or can not satisfy the larval.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch adds a comment to explain why we compare the cra_driver_name of
the algorithm being registered against the cra_name of a larval as opposed
to the cra_driver_name of the larval.

In fact larvals have only one name, cra_name which is the name that was
requested by the user.  The test here is simply trying to find out whether
the algorithm being registered can or can not satisfy the larval.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] blkcipher: Remove alignment restriction on block size</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:55:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-29T13:24:23+00:00</published>
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Previously we assumed for convenience that the block size is a multiple of
the algorithm's required alignment.  With the pending addition of CTR this
will no longer be the case as the block size will be 1 due to it being a
stream cipher.  However, the alignment requirement will be that of the
underlying implementation which will most likely be greater than 1.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Previously we assumed for convenience that the block size is a multiple of
the algorithm's required alignment.  With the pending addition of CTR this
will no longer be the case as the block size will be 1 due to it being a
stream cipher.  However, the alignment requirement will be that of the
underlying implementation which will most likely be greater than 1.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] aead: Add authenc</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T08:24:15+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the authenc algorithm which constructs an AEAD algorithm
from an asynchronous block cipher and a hash.  The construction is done
by concatenating the encrypted result from the cipher with the output
from the hash, as is used by the IPsec ESP protocol.

The authenc algorithm exists as a template with four parameters:

	authenc(auth, authsize, enc, enckeylen).

The authentication algorithm, the authentication size (i.e., truncating
the output of the authentication algorithm), the encryption algorithm,
and the encryption key length.  Both the size field and the key length
field are in bytes.  For example, AES-128 with SHA1-HMAC would be
represented by

	authenc(hmac(sha1), 12, cbc(aes), 16)

The key for the authenc algorithm is the concatenation of the keys for
the authentication algorithm with the encryption algorithm.  For the
above example, if a key of length 36 bytes is given, then hmac(sha1)
would receive the first 20 bytes while the last 16 would be given to
cbc(aes).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch adds the authenc algorithm which constructs an AEAD algorithm
from an asynchronous block cipher and a hash.  The construction is done
by concatenating the encrypted result from the cipher with the output
from the hash, as is used by the IPsec ESP protocol.

The authenc algorithm exists as a template with four parameters:

	authenc(auth, authsize, enc, enckeylen).

The authentication algorithm, the authentication size (i.e., truncating
the output of the authentication algorithm), the encryption algorithm,
and the encryption key length.  Both the size field and the key length
field are in bytes.  For example, AES-128 with SHA1-HMAC would be
represented by

	authenc(hmac(sha1), 12, cbc(aes), 16)

The key for the authenc algorithm is the concatenation of the keys for
the authentication algorithm with the encryption algorithm.  For the
above example, if a key of length 36 bytes is given, then hmac(sha1)
would receive the first 20 bytes while the last 16 would be given to
cbc(aes).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>[CRYPTO] api: Add support for multiple template parameters</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:55:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-29T11:27:26+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for having multiple parameters to
a template, separated by a comma.  It also adds support
for integer parameters in addition to the current algorithm
parameter type.

This will be used by the authenc template which will have
four parameters: the authentication algorithm, the encryption
algorithm, the authentication size and the encryption key
length.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch adds support for having multiple parameters to
a template, separated by a comma.  It also adds support
for integer parameters in addition to the current algorithm
parameter type.

This will be used by the authenc template which will have
four parameters: the authentication algorithm, the encryption
algorithm, the authentication size and the encryption key
length.

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