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2018-01-05crypto: algapi - convert cra_refcnt to refcount_tEric Biggers1-1/+1
Reference counters should use refcount_t rather than atomic_t, since the refcount_t implementation can prevent overflows, reducing the exploitability of reference leak bugs. crypto_alg.cra_refcount is a reference counter with the usual semantics, so switch it over to refcount_t. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-12-22crypto: api - Unexport crypto_larval_lookup()Eric Biggers1-2/+2
crypto_larval_lookup() is not used outside of crypto/api.c, so unexport it and mark it 'static'. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-11-03crypto: introduce crypto wait for async opGilad Ben-Yossef1-0/+13
Invoking a possibly async. crypto op and waiting for completion while correctly handling backlog processing is a common task in the crypto API implementation and outside users of it. This patch adds a generic implementation for doing so in preparation for using it across the board instead of hand rolled versions. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> CC: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> CC: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from ↵Ingo Molnar1-1/+1
<linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-11-28crypto: api - Do not clear type bits in crypto_larval_lookupHerbert Xu1-1/+1
Currently all bits not set in mask are cleared in crypto_larval_lookup. This is unnecessary as wherever the type bits are used it is always masked anyway. This patch removes the clearing so that we may use bits set in the type but not in the mask for special purposes, e.g., picking up internal algorithms. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-10-21crypto: api - Remove no-op exit_ops codeEric Biggers1-18/+2
crypto_exit_cipher_ops() and crypto_exit_compress_ops() are no-ops and have been for a long time, so remove them. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-10-20crypto: api - Only abort operations on fatal signalHerbert Xu1-3/+3
Currently a number of Crypto API operations may fail when a signal occurs. This causes nasty problems as the caller of those operations are often not in a good position to restart the operation. In fact there is currently no need for those operations to be interrupted by user signals at all. All we need is for them to be killable. This patch replaces the relevant calls of signal_pending with fatal_signal_pending, and wait_for_completion_interruptible with wait_for_completion_killable, respectively. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-03-31crypto: api - prevent helper ciphers from being usedStephan Mueller1-0/+10
Several hardware related cipher implementations are implemented as follows: a "helper" cipher implementation is registered with the kernel crypto API. Such helper ciphers are never intended to be called by normal users. In some cases, calling them via the normal crypto API may even cause failures including kernel crashes. In a normal case, the "wrapping" ciphers that use the helpers ensure that these helpers are invoked such that they cannot cause any calamity. Considering the AF_ALG user space interface, unprivileged users can call all ciphers registered with the crypto API, including these helper ciphers that are not intended to be called directly. That means, with AF_ALG user space may invoke these helper ciphers and may cause undefined states or side effects. To avoid any potential side effects with such helpers, the patch prevents the helpers to be called directly. A new cipher type flag is added: CRYPTO_ALG_INTERNAL. This flag shall be used to mark helper ciphers. These ciphers can only be used if the caller invoke the cipher with CRYPTO_ALG_INTERNAL in the type and mask field. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-11-24crypto: prefix module autoloading with "crypto-"Kees Cook1-2/+2
This prefixes all crypto module loading with "crypto-" so we never run the risk of exposing module auto-loading to userspace via a crypto API, as demonstrated by Mathias Krause: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/4/70 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2013-09-08crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookupHerbert Xu1-1/+6
crypto_larval_lookup should only return a larval if it created one. Any larval created by another entity must be processed through crypto_larval_wait before being returned. Otherwise this will lead to a larval being killed twice, which will most likely lead to a crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2013-08-20crypto: fix typo in commentCristian Stoica1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <cristian.stoica@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-06-25crypto: algboss - Hold ref count on larvalHerbert Xu1-6/+0
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > After having fixed a NULL pointer dereference in SCTP 1abd165e ("net: > sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in socket destruction"), I ran into > the following NULL pointer dereference in the crypto subsystem with > the same reproducer, easily hit each time: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > IP: [<ffffffff81070321>] __wake_up_common+0x31/0x90 > PGD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > Modules linked in: padlock_sha(F-) sha256_generic(F) sctp(F) libcrc32c(F) [..] > CPU: 6 PID: 3326 Comm: cryptomgr_probe Tainted: GF 3.10.0-rc5+ #1 > Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge T410/0H19HD, BIOS 1.6.3 02/01/2011 > task: ffff88007b6cf4e0 ti: ffff88007b7cc000 task.ti: ffff88007b7cc000 > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81070321>] [<ffffffff81070321>] __wake_up_common+0x31/0x90 > RSP: 0018:ffff88007b7cde08 EFLAGS: 00010082 > RAX: ffffffffffffffe8 RBX: ffff88003756c130 RCX: 0000000000000000 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff88003756c130 > RBP: ffff88007b7cde48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88012b173200 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000282 > R13: ffff88003756c138 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88012fc60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Stack: > ffff88007b7cde28 0000000300000000 ffff88007b7cde28 ffff88003756c130 > 0000000000000282 ffff88003756c128 ffffffff81227670 0000000000000000 > ffff88007b7cde78 ffffffff810722b7 ffff88007cdcf000 ffffffff81a90540 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff81227670>] ? crypto_alloc_pcomp+0x20/0x20 > [<ffffffff810722b7>] complete_all+0x47/0x60 > [<ffffffff81227708>] cryptomgr_probe+0x98/0xc0 > [<ffffffff81227670>] ? crypto_alloc_pcomp+0x20/0x20 > [<ffffffff8106760e>] kthread+0xce/0xe0 > [<ffffffff81067540>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 > [<ffffffff815450dc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 > [<ffffffff81067540>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 > Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 18 66 66 66 66 90 89 75 cc 89 55 c8 > 4c 8d 6f 08 48 8b 57 08 41 89 cf 4d 89 c6 48 8d 42 e > RIP [<ffffffff81070321>] __wake_up_common+0x31/0x90 > RSP <ffff88007b7cde08> > CR2: 0000000000000000 > ---[ end trace b495b19270a4d37e ]--- > > My assumption is that the following is happening: the minimal SCTP > tool runs under ``echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/sctp/auth_enable'', hence > it's making use of crypto_alloc_hash() via sctp_auth_init_hmacs(). > It forks itself, heavily allocates, binds, listens and waits in > accept on sctp sockets, and then randomly kills some of them (no > need for an actual client in this case to hit this). Then, again, > allocating, binding, etc, and then killing child processes. > > The problem that might be happening here is that cryptomgr requests > the module to probe/load through cryptomgr_schedule_probe(), but > before the thread handler cryptomgr_probe() returns, we return from > the wait_for_completion_interruptible() function and probably already > have cleared up larval, thus we run into a NULL pointer dereference > when in cryptomgr_probe() complete_all() is being called. > > If we wait with wait_for_completion() instead, this panic will not > occur anymore. This is valid, because in case a signal is pending, > cryptomgr_probe() returns from probing anyway with properly calling > complete_all(). The use of wait_for_completion_interruptible is intentional so that we don't lock up the thread if a bug causes us to never wake up. This bug is caused by the helper thread using the larval without holding a reference count on it. If the helper thread completes after the original thread requesting for help has gone away and destroyed the larval, then we get the crash above. So the fix is to hold a reference count on the larval. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6+ Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-02-16crypto: api - Fix checkpatch errorsRichard Hartmann1-7/+6
Signed-off-by: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-07-14crypto: api - Remove frontend argument from extsize/init_tfmHerbert Xu1-2/+2
As the extsize and init_tfm functions belong to the frontend the frontend argument is superfluous. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-07-14crypto: hash - Remove legacy hash/digest implementaionHerbert Xu1-17/+2
This patch removes the implementation of hash and digest now that no algorithms use them anymore. The interface though will remain until the users are converted across. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-07-08crypto: api - Add crypto_attr_alg2 helperHerbert Xu1-9/+22
This patch adds the helper crypto_attr_alg2 which is similar to crypto_attr_alg but takes an extra frontend argument. This is intended to be used by new style algorithm types such as shash. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-06-02crypto: api - Use formatting of module nameAlex Riesen1-6/+3
Besdies, for the old code, gcc-4.3.3 produced this warning: "format not a string literal and no format arguments" Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-06-02crypto: api - Use kzfreeJohannes Weiner1-4/+1
Use kzfree() instead of memset() + kfree(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-04-21crypto: api - Fix algorithm module auto-loadingHerbert Xu1-1/+2
The commit a760a6656e6f00bb0144a42a048cf0266646e22c (crypto: api - Fix module load deadlock with fallback algorithms) broke the auto-loading of algorithms that require fallbacks. The problem is that the fallback mask check is missing an and which cauess bits that should be considered to interfere with the result. Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-03-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds1-9/+8
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits) crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390: nlattr: Fix build error with NET off crypto: testmgr - add zlib test crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib crypto: Fix dead links hwrng: timeriomem - New driver crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer ...
2009-02-26crypto: api - Fix module load deadlock with fallback algorithmsHerbert Xu1-2/+13
With the mandatory algorithm testing at registration, we have now created a deadlock with algorithms requiring fallbacks. This can happen if the module containing the algorithm requiring fallback is loaded first, without the fallback module being loaded first. The system will then try to test the new algorithm, find that it needs to load a fallback, and then try to load that. As both algorithms share the same module alias, it can attempt to load the original algorithm again and block indefinitely. As algorithms requiring fallbacks are a special case, we can fix this by giving them a different module alias than the rest. Then it's just a matter of using the right aliases according to what algorithms we're trying to find. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-18crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return conventionHerbert Xu1-8/+7
This is based on a report and patch by Geert Uytterhoeven. The functions crypto_alloc_tfm and create_create_tfm return a pointer that needs to be adjusted by the caller when successful and otherwise an error value. This means that the caller has to check for the error and only perform the adjustment if the pointer returned is valid. Since all callers want to make the adjustment and we know how to adjust it ourselves, it's much easier to just return adjusted pointer directly. The only caveat is that we have to return a void * instead of struct crypto_tfm *. However, this isn't that bad because both of these functions are for internal use only (by types code like shash.c, not even algorithms code). This patch also moves crypto_alloc_tfm into crypto/internal.h (crypto_create_tfm is already there) to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-18crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untestedHerbert Xu1-1/+1
As it stands crypto_alg_mod_lookup will search either tested or untested algorithms, but never both at the same time. However, we need exactly that when constructing givcipher and aead so this patch adds support for that by setting the tested bit in type but clearing it in mask. This combination is currently unused. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-05crypto: api - Fix zeroing on freeHerbert Xu1-10/+10
Geert Uytterhoeven pointed out that we're not zeroing all the memory when freeing a transform. This patch fixes it by calling ksize to ensure that we zero everything in sight. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25crypto: api - Rebirth of crypto_alloc_tfmHerbert Xu1-0/+108
This patch reintroduces a completely revamped crypto_alloc_tfm. The biggest change is that we now take two crypto_type objects when allocating a tfm, a frontend and a backend. In fact this simply formalises what we've been doing behind the API's back. For example, as it stands crypto_alloc_ahash may use an actual ahash algorithm or a crypto_hash algorithm. Putting this in the API allows us to do this much more cleanly. The existing types will be converted across gradually. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25crypto: api - Move type exit function into crypto_tfmHerbert Xu1-7/+6
The type exit function needs to undo any allocations done by the type init function. However, the type init function may differ depending on the upper-level type of the transform (e.g., a crypto_blkcipher instantiated as a crypto_ablkcipher). So we need to move the exit function out of the lower-level structure and into crypto_tfm itself. As it stands this is a no-op since nobody uses exit functions at all. However, all cases where a lower-level type is instantiated as a different upper-level type (such as blkcipher as ablkcipher) will be converted such that they allocate the underlying transform and use that instead of casting (e.g., crypto_ablkcipher casted into crypto_blkcipher). That will need to use a different exit function depending on the upper-level type. This patch also allows the type init/exit functions to call (or not) cra_init/cra_exit instead of always calling them from the top level. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-08-29crypto: api - Use test infrastructureHerbert Xu1-15/+58
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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-08-29crypto: api - Export crypto_alg_lookup instead of __crypto_alg_lookupHerbert Xu1-4/+4
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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-07-10[CRYPTO] hash: Add asynchronous hash supportLoc Ho1-2/+6
This patch adds asynchronous hash and digest support. Signed-off-by: Loc Ho <lho@amcc.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-04-21[CRYPTO] api: Make the crypto subsystem fully modularSebastian Siewior1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-11[CRYPTO] skcipher: Create default givcipher instancesHerbert Xu1-5/+14
This patch makes crypto_alloc_ablkcipher/crypto_grab_skcipher always return algorithms that are capable of generating their own IVs through givencrypt and givdecrypt. Each algorithm may specify its default IV generator through the geniv field. For algorithms that do not set the geniv field, the blkcipher layer will pick a default. Currently it's chainiv for synchronous algorithms and eseqiv for asynchronous algorithms. Note that if these wrappers do not work on an algorithm then that algorithm must specify its own geniv or it can't be used at all. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-10-19crypto: convert "crypto" subdirectory to UTF-8John Anthony Kazos Jr1-1/+1
Convert the subdirectory "crypto" to UTF-8. The files changed are <crypto/fcrypt.c> and <crypto/api.c>. Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-07-11[CRYPTO] api: Wake up all waiters when larval completesHerbert Xu1-1/+1
Right now when a larval matures or when it dies of an error we only wake up one waiter. This would cause other waiters to timeout unnecessarily. This patch changes it to use complete_all to wake up all waiters. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-05-19[CRYPTO] api: Read module pointer before freeing algorithmHerbert Xu1-1/+3
The function crypto_mod_put first frees the algorithm and then drops the reference to its module. Unfortunately we read the module pointer which after freeing the algorithm and that pointer sits inside the object that we just freed. So this patch reads the module pointer out before we free the object. Thanks to Luca Tettamanti for reporting this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-02-07[CRYPTO] api: Allow multiple frontends per backendHerbert Xu1-12/+13
This patch adds support for multiple frontend types for each backend algorithm by passing the type and mask through to the backend type init function. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-02-07[CRYPTO] api: Remove deprecated interfaceHerbert Xu1-56/+7
This patch removes the old cipher interface and related code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06[CRYPTO] api: Remove unused functionsAdrian Bunk1-15/+0
This patch removes the following no longer used functions: - api.c: crypto_alg_available() - digest.c: crypto_digest_init() - digest.c: crypto_digest_update() - digest.c: crypto_digest_final() - digest.c: crypto_digest_digest() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-10-11[CRYPTO] api: fix crypto_alloc_base() return valueAkinobu Mita1-7/+8
This patch makes crypto_alloc_base() return proper return value. - If kzalloc() failure happens within __crypto_alloc_tfm(), crypto_alloc_base() returns NULL. But crypto_alloc_base() is supposed to return error code as pointer. So this patch makes it return -ENOMEM in that case. - crypto_alloc_base() is suppose to return -EINTR, if it is interrupted by signal. But it may not return -EINTR. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*Herbert Xu1-0/+14
This patch adds the crypto_comp type to complete the compile-time checking conversion. The functions crypto_has_alg and crypto_has_cipher, etc. are also added to replace crypto_alg_available. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_type supportHerbert Xu1-9/+23
This patch adds the crypto_type structure which will be used for all new crypto algorithm types, beginning with block ciphers. The primary purpose of this abstraction is to allow different crypto_type objects for crypto algorithms of the same type, in particular, there will be a different crypto_type objects for asynchronous algorithms. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_alloc_baseHerbert Xu1-0/+60
Up until now all crypto transforms have been of the same type, struct crypto_tfm, regardless of whether they are ciphers, digests, or other types. As a result of that, we check the types at run-time before each crypto operation. This is rather cumbersome. We could instead use different C types for each crypto type to ensure that the correct types are used at compile time. That is, we would have crypto_cipher/crypto_digest instead of just crypto_tfm. The appropriate type would then be required for the actual operations such as crypto_digest_digest. Now that we have the type/mask fields when looking up algorithms, it is easy to request for an algorithm of the precise type that the user wants. However, crypto_alloc_tfm currently does not expose these new attributes. This patch introduces the function crypto_alloc_base which will carry these new parameters. It will be renamed to crypto_alloc_tfm once all existing users have been converted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Added asynchronous flagHerbert Xu1-2/+3
This patch adds the asynchronous flag and changes all existing users to only look up algorithms that are synchronous. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Added spawnsHerbert Xu1-30/+65
Spawns lock a specific crypto algorithm in place. They can then be used with crypto_spawn_tfm to allocate a tfm for that algorithm. When the base algorithm of a spawn is deregistered, all its spawns will be automatically removed. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Allow algorithm lookup by typeHerbert Xu1-13/+26
This patch also adds the infrastructure to pick an algorithm based on their type. For example, this allows you to select the encryption algorithm "aes", instead of any algorithm registered under the name "aes". For now this is only accessible internally. Eventually it will be made available through crypto_alloc_tfm. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Add cryptomgrHerbert Xu1-1/+9
The cryptomgr module is a simple manager of crypto algorithm instances. It ensures that parameterised algorithms of the type tmpl(alg) (e.g., cbc(aes)) are always created. This is meant to satisfy the needs for most users. For more complex cases such as deeper combinations or multiple parameters, a netlink module will be created which allows arbitrary expressions to be parsed in user-space. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Added event notificationHerbert Xu1-12/+110
This patch adds a notifier chain for algorithm/template registration events. This will be used to register compound algorithms such as cbc(aes). In future this will also be passed onto user-space through netlink. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Split out low-level APIHerbert Xu1-95/+2
The crypto API is made up of the part facing users such as IPsec and the low-level part which is used by cryptographic entities such as algorithms. This patch splits out the latter so that the two APIs are more clearly delineated. As a bonus the low-level API can now be modularised if all algorithms are built as modules. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_alg reference countingHerbert Xu1-6/+26
Up until now we've relied on module reference counting to ensure that the crypto_alg structures don't disappear from under us. This was good enough as long as each crypto_alg came from exactly one module. However, with parameterised crypto algorithms a crypto_alg object may need two or more modules to operate. This means that we need to count the references to the crypto_alg object directly. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] api: Rename crypto_alg_get to crypto_mod_getHerbert Xu1-7/+7
The functions crypto_alg_get and crypto_alg_put operates on the crypto modules rather than the algorithms. Therefore it makes sense to call them crypto_mod_get and crypto_alg_put respectively. This is needed because we need to have real algorithm reference counters for parameterised algorithms as they can be unregistered from below by when their parameter algorithms are themselves unregistered. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-26[CRYPTO] api: Allow replacement when registering new algorithmsHerbert Xu1-2/+2
We already allow asynchronous removal of existing algorithm modules. By allowing the replacement of existing algorithms, we can replace algorithms without having to wait for for all existing users to complete. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>