[PATCH 2/2 v2] talitos: Freescale integrated security engine (SEC) driver

Kim Phillips kim.phillips at freescale.com
Fri Jun 6 07:44:15 EST 2008


On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:22:24 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:58:30PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> >
> > +	/* get random IV */
> > +	get_random_bytes(req->giv, crypto_aead_ivsize(authenc));
> 
> Sorry but this is unworkable given our current RNG infrastructure.
> Draining 16 bytes for every packet is going to make /dev/random
> unuseable (if it wasn't already :).

it is :).  I'm working on it :).

> Perhaps just use eseqiv (it should be pretty cheap sinec it just
> tacks on an extra block to the encryption) for now until we have
> a PRNG?

the h/w has a IV out feature we should probably be using.  How about
something like this (UNTESTED):

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/talitos.c b/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
index cf2e6f3..5ebb0f1 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ struct talitos_ctx {
 	struct device *dev;
 	__be32 desc_hdr_template;
 	u8 key[TALITOS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];
+	u8 iv[TALITOS_AES_IV_LENGTH];
 	unsigned int keylen;
 	unsigned int enckeylen;
 	unsigned int authkeylen;
@@ -873,8 +874,9 @@ static int ipsec_esp(struct ipsec_esp_edesc *edesc, struct aead_request *areq,
 					   edesc->dma_len, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
 	}
 
-	/* optional iv out - entry points use random IVs instead */
-	desc->ptr[6].len = 0;
+	/* iv out */
+	map_single_talitos_ptr(dev, &desc->ptr[6], ivsize, ctx->iv, 0,
+			       DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
 
 	return talitos_submit(dev, desc, callback, areq);
 }
@@ -1020,8 +1022,7 @@ static int aes_cbc_sha1_hmac_authenc_givencrypt(
 	/* set encrypt */
 	edesc->desc.hdr = ctx->desc_hdr_template | DESC_HDR_MODE0_AESU_ENC;
 
-	/* get random IV */
-	get_random_bytes(req->giv, crypto_aead_ivsize(authenc));
+	memcpy(req->giv, ctx->iv, crypto_aead_ivsize(authenc));
 
 	return ipsec_esp(edesc, areq, req->giv, req->seq,
 			 ipsec_esp_encrypt_done);
@@ -1081,6 +1082,9 @@ static int talitos_cra_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
 	/* copy descriptor header template value */
 	ctx->desc_hdr_template = talitos_alg->desc_hdr_template;
 
+	/* random first IV */
+	get_random_bytes(ctx->iv, TALITOS_AES_IV_LENGTH);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
Kim



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