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authorMarcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>2017-02-27 09:38:25 -0300
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2017-03-09 18:34:39 +0800
commite6c2e65c70a6f606ea764f301e4024c85e0cd7a8 (patch)
tree8d9587716148dcd7c3894ef8a7f7f3ff811e634b /crypto
parentb13b1e0c6b171b4f6ad94dd99020708719983494 (diff)
downloadlinux-e6c2e65c70a6f606ea764f301e4024c85e0cd7a8.tar.bz2
crypto: cbc - Propagate NEED_FALLBACK bit
When requesting a fallback algorithm, we should propagate the NEED_FALLBACK bit when search for the underlying algorithm. This will prevents drivers from allocating unnecessary fallbacks that are never called. For instance, currently the vmx-crypto driver will use the following chain of calls when calling the fallback implementation: p8_aes_cbc -> cbc(p8_aes) -> aes-generic However p8_aes will always delegate its calls to aes-generic. With this patch, p8_aes_cbc will be able to use cbc(aes-generic) directly as its fallback. The same applies to aes_s390. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/cbc.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/cbc.c b/crypto/cbc.c
index bc160a3186dc..b761b1f9c6ca 100644
--- a/crypto/cbc.c
+++ b/crypto/cbc.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
*
*/
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
#include <crypto/cbc.h>
#include <crypto/internal/skcipher.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
@@ -108,8 +109,10 @@ static void crypto_cbc_free(struct skcipher_instance *inst)
static int crypto_cbc_create(struct crypto_template *tmpl, struct rtattr **tb)
{
struct skcipher_instance *inst;
+ struct crypto_attr_type *algt;
struct crypto_spawn *spawn;
struct crypto_alg *alg;
+ u32 mask;
int err;
err = crypto_check_attr_type(tb, CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SKCIPHER);
@@ -120,8 +123,16 @@ static int crypto_cbc_create(struct crypto_template *tmpl, struct rtattr **tb)
if (!inst)
return -ENOMEM;
- alg = crypto_get_attr_alg(tb, CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER,
- CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK);
+ algt = crypto_get_attr_type(tb);
+ err = PTR_ERR(algt);
+ if (IS_ERR(algt))
+ goto err_free_inst;
+
+ mask = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK |
+ crypto_requires_off(algt->type, algt->mask,
+ CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK);
+
+ alg = crypto_get_attr_alg(tb, CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER, mask);
err = PTR_ERR(alg);
if (IS_ERR(alg))
goto err_free_inst;