The SM2 algorithm has a single user in the kernel. However, it's
never been integrated properly with that user: asymmetric_keys.
The crux of the issue is that the way it computes its digest with
sm3 does not fit into the architecture of asymmetric_keys. As no
solution has been proposed, remove this algorithm.
It can be resubmitted when it is integrated properly into the
asymmetric_keys subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.
Covering each of these points in detail:
1. Feature is not being used
Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1
The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't
appear to have happened.
It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.
Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).
Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.
There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.
2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance
Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This
primarily affects systems with a large number of CPUs. For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.
It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.
It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.
3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden
There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* Support for various vector-accelerated crypto routines.
* Hibernation is now enabled for portable kernel builds.
* mmap_rnd_bits_max is larger on systems with larger VAs.
* Support for fast GUP.
* Support for membarrier-based instruction cache synchronization.
* Support for the Andes hart-level interrupt controller and PMU.
* Some cleanups around unaligned access speed probing and Kconfig
settings.
* Support for ACPI LPI and CPPC.
* Various cleanus related to barriers.
* A handful of fixes.
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Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.9-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for various vector-accelerated crypto routines
- Hibernation is now enabled for portable kernel builds
- mmap_rnd_bits_max is larger on systems with larger VAs
- Support for fast GUP
- Support for membarrier-based instruction cache synchronization
- Support for the Andes hart-level interrupt controller and PMU
- Some cleanups around unaligned access speed probing and Kconfig
settings
- Support for ACPI LPI and CPPC
- Various cleanus related to barriers
- A handful of fixes
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.9-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (66 commits)
riscv: Fix syscall wrapper for >word-size arguments
crypto: riscv - add vector crypto accelerated AES-CBC-CTS
crypto: riscv - parallelize AES-CBC decryption
riscv: Only flush the mm icache when setting an exec pte
riscv: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
riscv/barrier: Add missing space after ','
riscv/barrier: Consolidate fence definitions
riscv/barrier: Define RISCV_FULL_BARRIER
riscv/barrier: Define __{mb,rmb,wmb}
RISC-V: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_ACPI_CPPC_CPUFREQ
cpufreq: Move CPPC configs to common Kconfig and add RISC-V
ACPI: RISC-V: Add CPPC driver
ACPI: Enable ACPI_PROCESSOR for RISC-V
ACPI: RISC-V: Add LPI driver
cpuidle: RISC-V: Move few functions to arch/riscv
riscv: Introduce set_compat_task() in asm/compat.h
riscv: Introduce is_compat_thread() into compat.h
riscv: add compile-time test into is_compat_task()
riscv: Replace direct thread flag check with is_compat_task()
riscv: Improve arch_get_mmap_end() macro
...
This reverts commit 2beb81fbf0.
While removing CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a worthy goal, this also
removed unrelated infrastructure such as crypto_comp_alg_common.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.
Covering each of these points in detail:
1. Feature is not being used
Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1
The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't
appear to have happened.
It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.
Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).
Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.
There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.
2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance
Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This
primarily affects systems with large number of CPUs. For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.
It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.
It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.
3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden
There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere.
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Correct various small problems in the help text:
a. change 2 spaces to ", "
b. finish an incomplete sentence
c. change non-working URL to working URL
Fixes: a9a98d49da ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Christoph Biedl <bugzilla.kernel.bpeb@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Create a crypto subdirectory for added accelerated cryptography routines
and hook it into the riscv Kbuild and the main crypto Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerry Shih <jerry.shih@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122002024.27477-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
As JITTERENTROPY is selected by default if you enable the CRYPTO
API, any Kconfig options added there will show up for every single
user. Hide the esoteric options under EXPERT as well as FIPS so
that only distro makers will see them.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
As lskcipher requires the ecb wrapper for the transition add an
explicit dependency on it so that it is always present. This can
be removed once all simple ciphers have been converted to lskcipher.
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Fixes: 705b52fef3 ("crypto: cbc - Convert from skcipher to lskcipher")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The oversampling rate used by the Jitter RNG allows the configuration of
the heuristically implied entropy in one timing measurement. This
entropy rate is (1 / OSR) bits of entropy per time stamp.
Considering that the Jitter RNG now support APT/RCT health tests for
different OSRs, allow this value to be configured at compile time to
support systems with limited amount of entropy in their timer.
The allowed range of OSR values complies with the APT/RCT cutoff health
test values which range from 1 through 15.
The default value of the OSR selection support is left at 1 which is the
current default. Thus, the addition of the configuration support does
not alter the default Jitter RNG behavior.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The memory size consumed by the Jitter RNG is one contributing factor in
the amount of entropy that is gathered. As the amount of entropy
directly correlates with the distance of the memory from the CPU, the
caches that are possibly present on a given system have an impact on the
collected entropy.
Thus, the kernel compile time should offer a means to configure the
amount of memory used by the Jitter RNG. Although this option could be
turned into a runtime option (e.g. a kernel command line option), it
should remain a compile time option as otherwise adminsitrators who may
not have performed an entropy assessment may select a value that is
inappropriate.
The default value selected by the configuration is identical to the
current Jitter RNG value. Thus, the patch should not lead to any change
in the Jitter RNG behavior.
To accommodate larger memory buffers, kvzalloc / kvfree is used.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Split out the sign/verify functionality from the existing akcipher
interface. Most algorithms in akcipher either support encryption
and decryption, or signing and verify. Only one supports both.
As a signature algorithm may not support encryption at all, these
two should be spearated.
For now sig is simply a wrapper around akcipher as all algorithms
remain unchanged. This is a first step and allows users to start
allocating sig instead of akcipher.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Give geniv its own Kconfig option so that its dependencies are
distinct from that of the AEAD API code. This also allows it
to be disabled if no IV generators (seqiv/echainiv) are enabled.
Remove the obsolete select on RNG2 by SKCIPHER2 as skcipher IV
generators disappeared long ago.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The testmgr code uses crypto_rng without depending on it. Add
an explicit dependency to Kconfig.
Also sort the MANAGER2 dependencies alphabetically.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Make the help text for CRYPTO_STATS explicitly mention that it reduces
the performance of the crypto API.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The test interface allows a privileged process to capture the raw
unconditioned noise that is collected by the Jitter RNG for statistical
analysis. Such testing allows the analysis how much entropy
the Jitter RNG noise source provides on a given platform. The obtained
data is the time stamp sampled by the Jitter RNG. Considering that
the Jitter RNG inserts the delta of this time stamp compared to the
immediately preceding time stamp, the obtained data needs to be
post-processed accordingly to obtain the data the Jitter RNG inserts
into its entropy pool.
The raw entropy collection is provided to obtain the raw unmodified
time stamps that are about to be added to the Jitter RNG entropy pool
and are credited with entropy. Thus, this patch adds an interface
which renders the Jitter RNG insecure. This patch is NOT INTENDED
FOR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, but solely for development/test systems to
verify the available entropy rate.
Access to the data is given through the jent_raw_hires debugfs file.
The data buffer should be multiples of sizeof(u32) to fill the entire
buffer. Using the option jitterentropy_testing.boot_raw_hires_test=1
the raw noise of the first 1000 entropy events since boot can be
sampled.
This test interface allows generating the data required for
analysis whether the Jitter RNG is in compliance with SP800-90B
sections 3.1.3 and 3.1.4.
If the test interface is not compiled, its code is a noop which has no
impact on the performance.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Using the kernel crypto API, the SHA3-256 algorithm is used as
conditioning element to replace the LFSR in the Jitter RNG. All other
parts of the Jitter RNG are unchanged.
The application and use of the SHA-3 conditioning operation is identical
to the user space Jitter RNG 3.4.0 by applying the following concept:
- the Jitter RNG initializes a SHA-3 state which acts as the "entropy
pool" when the Jitter RNG is allocated.
- When a new time delta is obtained, it is inserted into the "entropy
pool" with a SHA-3 update operation. Note, this operation in most of
the cases is a simple memcpy() onto the SHA-3 stack.
- To cause a true SHA-3 operation for each time delta operation, a
second SHA-3 operation is performed hashing Jitter RNG status
information. The final message digest is also inserted into the
"entropy pool" with a SHA-3 update operation. Yet, this data is not
considered to provide any entropy, but it shall stir the entropy pool.
- To generate a random number, a SHA-3 final operation is performed to
calculate a message digest followed by an immediate SHA-3 init to
re-initialize the "entropy pool". The obtained message digest is one
block of the Jitter RNG that is returned to the caller.
Mathematically speaking, the random number generated by the Jitter RNG
is:
aux_t = SHA-3(Jitter RNG state data)
Jitter RNG block = SHA-3(time_i || aux_i || time_(i-1) || aux_(i-1) ||
... || time_(i-255) || aux_(i-255))
when assuming that the OSR = 1, i.e. the default value.
This operation implies that the Jitter RNG has an output-blocksize of
256 bits instead of the 64 bits of the LFSR-based Jitter RNG that is
replaced with this patch.
The patch also replaces the varying number of invocations of the
conditioning function with one fixed number of invocations. The use
of the conditioning function consistent with the userspace Jitter RNG
library version 3.4.0.
The code is tested with a system that exhibited the least amount of
entropy generated by the Jitter RNG: the SiFive Unmatched RISC-V
system. The measured entropy rate is well above the heuristically
implied entropy value of 1 bit of entropy per time delta. On all other
tested systems, the measured entropy rate is even higher by orders
of magnitude. The measurement was performed using updated tooling
provided with the user space Jitter RNG library test framework.
The performance of the Jitter RNG with this patch is about en par
with the performance of the Jitter RNG without the patch.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
With a blatant copy of some MIPS bits we introduce the crc32 and crc32c
hw accelerated module to LoongArch.
LoongArch has provided these instructions to calculate crc32 and crc32c:
* crc.w.b.w crcc.w.b.w
* crc.w.h.w crcc.w.h.w
* crc.w.w.w crcc.w.w.w
* crc.w.d.w crcc.w.d.w
So we can make use of these instructions to improve the performance of
calculation for crc32(c) checksums.
As can be seen from the following test results, crc32(c) instructions
can improve the performance by 58%.
Software implemention Hardware acceleration
Buffer size time cost (seconds) time cost (seconds) Accel.
100 KB 0.000845 0.000534 59.1%
1 MB 0.007758 0.004836 59.4%
10 MB 0.076593 0.047682 59.4%
100 MB 0.756734 0.479126 58.5%
1000 MB 7.563841 4.778266 58.5%
Signed-off-by: Min Zhou <zhoumin@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
The gf128mul library does not depend on the crypto API at all, so it can
be moved into lib/crypto. This will allow us to use it in other library
code in a subsequent patch without having to depend on CONFIG_CRYPTO.
While at it, change the Kconfig symbol name to align with other crypto
library implementations. However, the source file name is retained, as
it is reflected in the module .ko filename, and changing this might
break things for users.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative
reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
- Also the Maple Tree from Liam R. Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slight more efficient in its own right,
but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention.
Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com).
This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed
vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to
the single bit level.
KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.
- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.
- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support
file/shmem-backed pages.
- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen
- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov
- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure
- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.
- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.
- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.
- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.
- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions
- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(
- migration enhancements from Peter Xu
- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying
- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.
- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.
- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.
- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity.
- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.
- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.
- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.
- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.
- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.
- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.
- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
- Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
contention.
Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
to the single bit level.
KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.
- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.
- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
support file/shmem-backed pages.
- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen
- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov
- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
memory-failure
- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.
- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.
- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.
- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.
- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions
- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(
- migration enhancements from Peter Xu
- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying
- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.
- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.
- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.
- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
activity.
- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.
- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.
- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.
- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.
- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.
- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.
- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer
hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
...
Commit 2d16803c56 ("crypto: blake2s - remove shash module") removes the
config CRYPTO_BLAKE2S.
Commit 3f342a2325 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify hash entries") makes
various changes to the config descriptions as part of some consolidation
and clean-up, but among all those changes, it also accidently adds back
CRYPTO_BLAKE2S after its removal due to the original patch being based on
a state before the CRYPTO_BLAKE2S removal.
See Link for the author's confirmation of this happening accidently.
Fixes: 3f342a2325 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify hash entries")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/MW5PR84MB18424AB8C095BFC041AE33FDAB479@MW5PR84MB1842.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Shorten menu titles and make them consistent:
- acronym
- name
- architecture features in parenthesis
- no suffixes like "<something> algorithm", "support", or
"hardware acceleration", or "optimized"
Simplify help text descriptions, update references, and ensure that
https references are still valid.
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Convert each comment section into a submenu:
Cryptographic API
Crypto core or helper
Public-key cryptography
Block ciphers
Length-preserving ciphers and modes
AEAD (authenticated encryption with associated data) ciphers
Hashes, digests, and MACs
CRCs (cyclic redundancy checks)
Compression
Random number generation
Userspace interface
That helps find entries (e.g., searching for a name like SHA512 doesn't
just report the location is Main menu -> Cryptography API, leaving you
to wade through 153 entries; it points you to the Digests page).
Move entries so they fall into the correct submenus and are
better sorted.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move ARM- and ARM64-accelerated menus into a submenu under
the Crypto API menu (paralleling all the architectures).
Make each submenu always appear if the corresponding architecture
is supported. Get rid of the ARM_CRYPTO and ARM64_CRYPTO symbols.
The "ARM Accelerated" or "ARM64 Accelerated" entry disappears from:
General setup --->
Platform selection --->
Kernel Features --->
Boot options --->
Power management options --->
CPU Power Management --->
[*] ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support --->
[*] Virtualization --->
[*] ARM Accelerated Cryptographic Algorithms --->
(or)
[*] ARM64 Accelerated Cryptographic Algorithms --->
...
-*- Cryptographic API --->
Library routines --->
Kernel hacking --->
and moves into the Cryptographic API menu, which now contains:
...
Accelerated Cryptographic Algorithms for CPU (arm) --->
(or)
Accelerated Cryptographic Algorithms for CPU (arm64) --->
[*] Hardware crypto devices --->
...
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move CPU-specific crypto/Kconfig entries to arch/xxx/crypto/Kconfig
and create a submenu for them under the Crypto API menu.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move CPU-specific crypto/Kconfig entries to arch/xxx/crypto/Kconfig
and create a submenu for them under the Crypto API menu.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move CPU-specific crypto/Kconfig entries to arch/xxx/crypto/Kconfig
and create a submenu for them under the Crypto API menu.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move CPU-specific crypto/Kconfig entries to arch/xxx/crypto/Kconfig
and create a submenu for them under the Crypto API menu.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Move CPU-specific crypto/Kconfig entries to arch/xxx/crypto/Kconfig
and create a submenu for them under the Crypto API menu.
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
As requested at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/YtEgzHuuMts0YBCz@gondor.apana.org.au, move
__crypto_memneq into lib/crypto/ and put it under a new tristate. The
tristate is CRYPTO_LIB_UTILS, and it builds a module libcryptoutils. As
more crypto library utilities are being added, this creates a single
place for them to go without cluttering up the main lib directory.
The module's main file will be lib/crypto/utils.c. However, leave
memneq.c as its own file because of its nonstandard license.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
API:
- Make proc files report fips module name and version.
Algorithms:
- Move generic SHA1 code into lib/crypto.
- Implement Chinese Remainder Theorem for RSA.
- Remove blake2s.
- Add XCTR with x86/arm64 acceleration.
- Add POLYVAL with x86/arm64 acceleration.
- Add HCTR2.
- Add ARIA.
Drivers:
- Add support for new CCP/PSP device ID in ccp.
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Merge tag 'v5.20-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Make proc files report fips module name and version
Algorithms:
- Move generic SHA1 code into lib/crypto
- Implement Chinese Remainder Theorem for RSA
- Remove blake2s
- Add XCTR with x86/arm64 acceleration
- Add POLYVAL with x86/arm64 acceleration
- Add HCTR2
- Add ARIA
Drivers:
- Add support for new CCP/PSP device ID in ccp"
* tag 'v5.20-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (89 commits)
crypto: tcrypt - Remove the static variable initialisations to NULL
crypto: arm64/poly1305 - fix a read out-of-bound
crypto: hisilicon/zip - Use the bitmap API to allocate bitmaps
crypto: hisilicon/sec - fix auth key size error
crypto: ccree - Remove a useless dma_supported() call
crypto: ccp - Add support for new CCP/PSP device ID
crypto: inside-secure - Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for of
crypto: hisilicon/hpre - don't use GFP_KERNEL to alloc mem during softirq
crypto: testmgr - some more fixes to RSA test vectors
cyrpto: powerpc/aes - delete the rebundant word "block" in comments
hwrng: via - Fix comment typo
crypto: twofish - Fix comment typo
crypto: rmd160 - fix Kconfig "its" grammar
crypto: keembay-ocs-ecc - Drop if with an always false condition
Documentation: qat: rewrite description
Documentation: qat: Use code block for qat sysfs example
crypto: lib - add module license to libsha1
crypto: lib - make the sha1 library optional
crypto: lib - move lib/sha1.c into lib/crypto/
crypto: fips - make proc files report fips module name and version
...
Use the possessive "its" instead of the contraction "it's"
where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Since the Linux RNG no longer uses sha1_transform(), the SHA-1 library
is no longer needed unconditionally. Make it possible to build the
Linux kernel without the SHA-1 library by putting it behind a kconfig
option, and selecting this new option from the kconfig options that gate
the remaining users: CRYPTO_SHA1 for crypto/sha1_generic.c, BPF for
kernel/bpf/core.c, and IPV6 for net/ipv6/addrconf.c.
Unfortunately, since BPF is selected by NET, for now this can only make
a difference for kernels built without networking support.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
FIPS 140-3 introduced a requirement for the FIPS module to return
information about itself, specifically a name and a version. These
values must match the values reported on FIPS certificates.
This patch adds two files to read a name and a version from:
/proc/sys/crypto/fips_name
/proc/sys/crypto/fips_version
v2: removed redundant parentheses in config entries.
v3: move FIPS_MODULE_* defines to fips.c where they are used.
v4: return utsrelease.h inclusion
Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
ARIA(RFC 5794) is a symmetric block cipher algorithm.
This algorithm is being used widely in South Korea as a standard cipher
algorithm.
This code is written based on the ARIA implementation of OpenSSL.
The OpenSSL code is based on the distributed source code[1] by KISA.
ARIA has three key sizes and corresponding rounds.
ARIA128: 12 rounds.
ARIA192: 14 rounds.
ARIA245: 16 rounds.
[1] https://seed.kisa.or.kr/kisa/Board/19/detailView.do (Korean)
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Various accelerated software implementation Kconfig values for S390 were
mistakenly placed into drivers/crypto/Kconfig, even though they're
mainly just SIMD code and live in arch/s390/crypto/ like usual. This
gives them the very unusual dependency on CRYPTO_HW, which leads to
problems elsewhere.
This patch fixes the issue by moving the Kconfig values for non-hardware
drivers into the usual place in crypto/Kconfig.
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This is used by code that doesn't need CONFIG_CRYPTO, so move this into
lib/ with a Kconfig option so that it can be selected by whatever needs
it.
This fixes a linker error Zheng pointed out when
CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS!=y and CRYPTO=m:
lib/crypto/curve25519-selftest.o: In function `curve25519_selftest':
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x60): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0xec): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x114): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x154): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
Reported-by: Zheng Bin <zhengbin13@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aa127963f1 ("crypto: lib/curve25519 - re-add selftests")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
BLAKE2s has no currently known use as an shash. Just remove all of this
unnecessary plumbing. Removing this shash was something we talked about
back when we were making BLAKE2s a built-in, but I simply never got
around to doing it. So this completes that project.
Importantly, this fixs a bug in which the lib code depends on
crypto_simd_disabled_for_test, causing linker errors.
Also add more alignment tests to the selftests and compare SIMD and
non-SIMD compression functions, to make up for what we lose from
testmgr.c.
Reported-by: gaochao <gaochao49@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6048fdcc5f ("lib/crypto: blake2s: include as built-in")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This is used by code that doesn't need CONFIG_CRYPTO, so move this into
lib/ with a Kconfig option so that it can be selected by whatever needs
it.
This fixes a linker error Zheng pointed out when
CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS!=y and CRYPTO=m:
lib/crypto/curve25519-selftest.o: In function `curve25519_selftest':
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x60): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0xec): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x114): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
curve25519-selftest.c:(.init.text+0x154): undefined reference to `__crypto_memneq'
Reported-by: Zheng Bin <zhengbin13@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aa127963f1 ("crypto: lib/curve25519 - re-add selftests")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Add hardware accelerated version of POLYVAL for x86-64 CPUs with
PCLMULQDQ support.
This implementation is accelerated using PCLMULQDQ instructions to
perform the finite field computations. For added efficiency, 8 blocks
of the message are processed simultaneously by precomputing the first
8 powers of the key.
Schoolbook multiplication is used instead of Karatsuba multiplication
because it was found to be slightly faster on x86-64 machines.
Montgomery reduction must be used instead of Barrett reduction due to
the difference in modulus between POLYVAL's field and other finite
fields.
More information on POLYVAL can be found in the HCTR2 paper:
"Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2":
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Add hardware accelerated version of XCTR for x86-64 CPUs with AESNI
support.
More information on XCTR can be found in the HCTR2 paper:
"Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2":
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Add support for HCTR2 as a template. HCTR2 is a length-preserving
encryption mode that is efficient on processors with instructions to
accelerate AES and carryless multiplication, e.g. x86 processors with
AES-NI and CLMUL, and ARM processors with the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions.
As a length-preserving encryption mode, HCTR2 is suitable for
applications such as storage encryption where ciphertext expansion is
not possible, and thus authenticated encryption cannot be used.
Currently, such applications usually use XTS, or in some cases Adiantum.
XTS has the disadvantage that it is a narrow-block mode: a bitflip will
only change 16 bytes in the resulting ciphertext or plaintext. This
reveals more information to an attacker than necessary.
HCTR2 is a wide-block mode, so it provides a stronger security property:
a bitflip will change the entire message. HCTR2 is somewhat similar to
Adiantum, which is also a wide-block mode. However, HCTR2 is designed
to take advantage of existing crypto instructions, while Adiantum
targets devices without such hardware support. Adiantum is also
designed with longer messages in mind, while HCTR2 is designed to be
efficient even on short messages.
HCTR2 requires POLYVAL and XCTR as components. More information on
HCTR2 can be found here: "Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2":
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
