Most cryptographic hash functions are serialized, in the sense that they
have an internal block size and the blocks must be processed serially.
(BLAKE3 is a notable exception that has tree-based hashing built-in, but
all the more common choices such as the SHAs and BLAKE2 are serialized.
ParallelHash and Sakura are parallel hashes based on SHA3, but SHA3 is
much slower than SHA256 in software even with the ARMv8 SHA3 extension.)
This limits the performance of computing a single hash. Yet, computing
multiple hashes simultaneously does not have this limitation. Modern
CPUs are superscalar and often can execute independent instructions in
parallel. As a result, on many modern CPUs, it is possible to hash two
equal-length messages in about the same time as a single message, if all
the instructions are interleaved.
Meanwhile, a very common use case for hashing in the Linux kernel is
dm-verity and fs-verity. Both use a Merkle tree that has a fixed block
size, usually 4096 bytes with an empty or 32-byte salt prepended. The
hash algorithm is usually SHA-256. Usually, many blocks need to be
hashed at a time. This is an ideal scenario for multibuffer hashing.
Linux actually used to support SHA-256 multibuffer hashing on x86_64,
before it was removed by commit ab8085c130 ("crypto: x86 - remove SHA
multibuffer routines and mcryptd"). However, it was integrated with the
crypto API in a weird way, where it behaved as an asynchronous hash that
queued up and executed all requests on a global queue. This made it
very complex, buggy, and virtually unusable.
This patch takes a new approach of just adding an API
crypto_shash_finup_mb() that synchronously computes the hash of multiple
equal-length messages, starting from a common state that represents the
(possibly empty) common prefix shared by the messages.
The new API is part of the "shash" algorithm type, as it does not make
sense in "ahash". It does a "finup" operation rather than a "digest"
operation in order to support the salt that is used by dm-verity and
fs-verity. The data and output buffers are provided in arrays of length
@num_msgs in order to make the API itself extensible to interleaving
factors other than 2. (Though, initially only 2x will actually be used.
There are some platforms in which a higher factor could help, but there
are significant trade-offs.)
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Bug: 351884559
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20241001153718.111665-2-ebiggers@kernel.org/
Change-Id: Iaec1e6387dd29eaef7b9b76a4e15619abf8c1bed
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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
Steps on the way to 6.12-rc1
Bug: 367265496
Change-Id: I96031010350dd3e03be270e3804d280df8ed1ab2
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Algorithm registration is usually carried out during module init,
where as little work as possible should be carried out. The SIMD
code violated this rule by allocating a tfm, this then triggers a
full test of the algorithm which may dead-lock in certain cases.
SIMD is only allocating the tfm to get at the alg object, which is
in fact already available as it is what we are registering. Use
that directly and remove the crypto_alloc_tfm call.
Also remove some obsolete and unused SIMD API.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Add comment to ecc_digits_from_bytes kdoc that the first byte is expected
to hold the most significant bits of the large integer that is converted
into an array of digits.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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>
Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu:
"Fix a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy fix in qat"
* tag 'v6.10-p2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: ecc - Prevent ecc_digits_from_bytes from reading too many bytes
crypto: qat - Fix ADF_DEV_RESET_SYNC memory leak
Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
API".
- In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
one test.
- In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
/proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.
- Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
largely similar code sites.
- In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
efficiency.
- In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
improve hugetlb allocation reliability.
- Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
memory almost met memcg limit".
- In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
performance improvement in one test.
- Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
free_area_init_core()".
- Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
"mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".
- MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
follow_pfn".
- More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
page->flags cleanups".
- Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".
- More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
"khugepaged folio conversions"
"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
"Use folio APIs in procfs"
"Clean up __folio_put()"
"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
"Remove page_mapping()"
"More folio compat code removal"
- David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
hugetlb functions to work on folis".
- Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".
- Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
series "Cover a guard gap corner case".
- Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".
- Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
"support multi-size THP numa balancing".
- Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
- Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
"selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
- Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".
- Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
permission page faults in the series
"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"
- GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
it GUP-fast".
- hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
path to use struct vm_fault".
- selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".
- Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
memory types works as intended.
- David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
follow_pte() fixes".
- David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".
- Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
folio in KSM".
- Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
counters".
- Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
same-filled and limit checking cleanups".
- Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
documentation".
- Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
optimizes the freeing of these things.
- Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".
- Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
"Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".
- Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.
- SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"
- Also some maintenance work in the series
"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"
- David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
XFAIL".
- memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".
- DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
"dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
...
Pull more io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:
"This adds support for IORING_CQE_F_SOCK_NONEMPTY for io_uring accept
requests.
This is very similar to previous work that enabled the same hint for
doing receives on sockets. By far the majority of the work here is
refactoring to enable the networking side to pass back whether or not
the socket had more pending requests after accepting the current one,
the last patch just wires it up for io_uring.
Not only does this enable applications to know whether there are more
connections to accept right now, it also enables smarter logic for
io_uring multishot accept on whether to retry immediately or wait for
a poll trigger"
* tag 'net-accept-more-20240515' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
io_uring/net: wire up IORING_CQE_F_SOCK_NONEMPTY for accept
net: pass back whether socket was empty post accept
net: have do_accept() take a struct proto_accept_arg argument
net: change proto and proto_ops accept type
Prevent ecc_digits_from_bytes from reading too many bytes from the input
byte array in case an insufficient number of bytes is provided to fill the
output digit array of ndigits. Therefore, initialize the most significant
digits with 0 to avoid trying to read too many bytes later on. Convert the
function into a regular function since it is getting too big for an inline
function.
If too many bytes are provided on the input byte array the extra bytes
are ignored since the input variable 'ndigits' limits the number of digits
that will be filled.
Fixes: d67c96fb97 ("crypto: ecdsa - Convert byte arrays with key coordinates to digits")
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Rather than pass in flags, error pointer, and whether this is a kernel
invocation or not, add a struct proto_accept_arg struct as the argument.
This then holds all of these arguments, and prepares accept for being
able to pass back more information.
No functional changes in this patch.
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Remove crypto stats interface
Algorithms:
- Add faster AES-XTS on modern x86_64 CPUs
- Forbid curves with order less than 224 bits in ecc (FIPS 186-5)
- Add ECDSA NIST P521
Drivers:
- Expose otp zone in atmel
- Add dh fallback for primes > 4K in qat
- Add interface for live migration in qat
- Use dma for aes requests in starfive
- Add full DMA support for stm32mpx in stm32
- Add Tegra Security Engine driver
Others:
- Introduce scope-based x509_certificate allocation"
* tag 'v6.10-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (123 commits)
crypto: atmel-sha204a - provide the otp content
crypto: atmel-sha204a - add reading from otp zone
crypto: atmel-i2c - rename read function
crypto: atmel-i2c - add missing arg description
crypto: iaa - Use kmemdup() instead of kzalloc() and memcpy()
crypto: sahara - use 'time_left' variable with wait_for_completion_timeout()
crypto: api - use 'time_left' variable with wait_for_completion_killable_timeout()
crypto: caam - i.MX8ULP donot have CAAM page0 access
crypto: caam - init-clk based on caam-page0-access
crypto: starfive - Use fallback for unaligned dma access
crypto: starfive - Do not free stack buffer
crypto: starfive - Skip unneeded fallback allocation
crypto: starfive - Skip dma setup for zeroed message
crypto: hisilicon/sec2 - fix for register offset
crypto: hisilicon/debugfs - mask the unnecessary info from the dump
crypto: qat - specify firmware files for 402xx
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - simplify GCM hash subkey derivation
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - delete unused GCM assembly code
crypto: x86/aes-xts - simplify loop in xts_crypt_slowpath()
hwrng: stm32 - repair clock handling
...
The private key in ctx->private_key is currently initialized in reverse
byte order in ecdh_set_secret and whenever the key is needed in proper
byte order the variable priv is introduced and the bytes from
ctx->private_key are copied into priv while being byte-swapped
(ecc_swap_digits). To get rid of the unnecessary byte swapping initialize
ctx->private_key in proper byte order and clean up all functions that were
previously using priv or were called with ctx->private_key:
- ecc_gen_privkey: Directly initialize the passed ctx->private_key with
random bytes filling all the digits of the private key. Get rid of the
priv variable. This function only has ecdh_set_secret as a caller to
create NIST P192/256/384 private keys.
- crypto_ecdh_shared_secret: Called only from ecdh_compute_value with
ctx->private_key. Get rid of the priv variable and work with the passed
private_key directly.
- ecc_make_pub_key: Called only from ecdh_compute_value with
ctx->private_key. Get rid of the priv variable and work with the passed
private_key directly.
Cc: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Main goal of memory allocation profiling patchset is to provide accounting
that is cheap enough to run in production. To achieve that we inject
counters using codetags at the allocation call sites to account every time
allocation is made. This injection allows us to perform accounting
efficiently because injected counters are immediately available as opposed
to the alternative methods, such as using _RET_IP_, which would require
counter lookup and appropriate locking that makes accounting much more
expensive. This method requires all allocation functions to inject
separate counters at their call sites so that their callers can be
individually accounted. Counter injection is implemented by allocation
hooks which should wrap all allocation functions.
Inlined functions which perform allocations but do not use allocation
hooks are directly charged for the allocations they perform. In most
cases these functions are just specialized allocation wrappers used from
multiple places to allocate objects of a specific type. It would be more
useful to do the accounting at their call sites instead. Instrument these
helpers to do accounting at the call site. Simple inlined allocation
wrappers are converted directly into macros. More complex allocators or
allocators with documentation are converted into _noprof versions and
allocation hooks are added. This allows memory allocation profiling
mechanism to charge allocations to the callers of these functions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415020731.1152108-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> [jbd2]
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
1. Picked up the most code coverage and the least running time test class
2. remove the CtsTelecomTestcase due to 0% coverage rate under drivers/usb/core
Bug: 331992790
Change-Id: I40b94a67411b8c03d9450d9122a89c82c4d57fca
Signed-off-by: chihsheng <chihsheng@google.com>
Implement vli_mmod_fast_521 following the description for how to calculate
the modulus for NIST P521 in the NIST publication "Recommendations for
Discrete Logarithm-Based Cryptography: Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters"
section G.1.4.
NIST p521 requires 9 64bit digits, so increase the ECC_MAX_DIGITS so that
the vli digit array provides enough elements to fit the larger integers
required by this curve.
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Add the number of bits a curve has to the ecc_curve definition to be able
to derive the number of bytes a curve requires for its coordinates from it.
It also allows one to identify a curve by its particular size. Set the
number of bits on all curve definitions.
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
For NIST P192/256/384 the public key's x and y parameters could be copied
directly from a given array since both parameters filled 'ndigits' of
digits (a 'digit' is a u64). For support of NIST P521 the key parameters
need to have leading zeros prepended to the most significant digit since
only 2 bytes of the most significant digit are provided.
Therefore, implement ecc_digits_from_bytes to convert a byte array into an
array of digits and use this function in ecdsa_set_pub_key where an input
byte array needs to be converted into digits.
Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
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>
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Avoid unnecessary copying in scomp for trivial SG lists
Algorithms:
- Optimise NEON CCM implementation on ARM64
Drivers:
- Add queue stop/query debugfs support in hisilicon/qm
- Intel qat updates and cleanups"
* tag 'v6.9-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (79 commits)
Revert "crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS"
crypto: scomp - remove memcpy if sg_nents is 1 and pages are lowmem
crypto: tcrypt - add ffdhe2048(dh) test
crypto: iaa - fix the missing CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC in cra_flags
crypto: hisilicon/zip - fix the missing CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC in cra_flags
hwrng: hisi - use dev_err_probe
MAINTAINERS: Remove T Ambarus from few mchp entries
crypto: iaa - Fix comp/decomp delay statistics
crypto: iaa - Fix async_disable descriptor leak
dt-bindings: rng: atmel,at91-trng: add sam9x7 TRNG
dt-bindings: crypto: add sam9x7 in Atmel TDES
dt-bindings: crypto: add sam9x7 in Atmel SHA
dt-bindings: crypto: add sam9x7 in Atmel AES
crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS
crypto: dh - Make public key test FIPS-only
crypto: rockchip - fix to check return value
crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text
crypto: qat - make ring to service map common for QAT GEN4
crypto: qat - fix ring to service map for dcc in 420xx
crypto: qat - fix ring to service map for dcc in 4xxx
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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>
Add network tests to more code paths based on kernel coverage data.
Change-Id: I4e0d54845fca17d2ea534a671ca8cf8fa46cf40a
Signed-off-by: Betty Zhou <bettyzhou@google.com>
Bug: 326993647
