[PATCH] crypto: vmx/xts - use fallback for ciphertext stealing

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Sat Aug 17 00:06:24 AEST 2019


For correctness and compliance with the XTS-AES specification, we are
adding support for ciphertext stealing to XTS implementations, even
though no use cases are known that will be enabled by this.

Since the Power8 implementation already has a fallback skcipher standby
for other purposes, let's use it for this purpose as well. If ciphertext
stealing use cases ever become a bottleneck, we can always revisit this.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
index 49f7258045fa..d59e736882f6 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int p8_aes_xts_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req, int enc)
 	u8 tweak[AES_BLOCK_SIZE];
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!crypto_simd_usable()) {
+	if (!crypto_simd_usable() || (req->cryptlen % XTS_BLOCK_SIZE) != 0) {
 		struct skcipher_request *subreq = skcipher_request_ctx(req);
 
 		*subreq = *req;
-- 
2.17.1



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