[PATCH] arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test: Use cheaper random numbers for self-test
Daniel Axtens
dja at axtens.net
Fri Mar 22 13:13:56 AEDT 2019
Hi George,
> This code was filling a 64K buffer from /dev/urandom in order to
> compute a CRC over (on average half of) it by two different methods,
> comparing the CRCs, and repeating.
>
> This is not a remotely security-critical application, so use the far
> faster and cheaper prandom_u32() generator.
>
I've had a quick look at the prandom_u32 generator and I agree that it's
suitable for this.
> And, while we're at it, only fill as much of the buffer as we plan to use.
This also looks good to me.
Acked-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
Regards,
Daniel
>
> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml at sdf.org>
> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c | 10 +++-------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
> index 0153a9c6f4af..98ea4f4d3dde 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
> @@ -78,16 +78,12 @@ static int __init crc_test_init(void)
>
> pr_info("crc-vpmsum_test begins, %lu iterations\n", iterations);
> for (i=0; i<iterations; i++) {
> - size_t len, offset;
> + size_t offset = prandom_u32_max(16);
> + size_t len = prandom_u32_max(MAX_CRC_LENGTH);
>
> - get_random_bytes(data, MAX_CRC_LENGTH);
> - get_random_bytes(&len, sizeof(len));
> - get_random_bytes(&offset, sizeof(offset));
> -
> - len %= MAX_CRC_LENGTH;
> - offset &= 15;
> if (len <= offset)
> continue;
> + prandom_bytes(data, len);
> len -= offset;
>
> crypto_shash_update(crct10dif_shash, data+offset, len);
> --
> 2.20.1
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