[PATCH v2 0/3] crypto: powerpc - convert SPE AES algorithms to skcipher API

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Oct 15 21:33:25 AEDT 2019


On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 04:45, Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This series converts the glue code for the PowerPC SPE implementations
> of AES-ECB, AES-CBC, AES-CTR, and AES-XTS from the deprecated
> "blkcipher" API to the "skcipher" API.  This is needed in order for the
> blkcipher API to be removed.
>
> Patch 1-2 are fixes.  Patch 3 is the actual conversion.
>
> Tested with:
>
>         export ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu-
>         make mpc85xx_defconfig
>         cat >> .config << EOF
>         # CONFIG_MODULES is not set
>         # CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS is not set
>         CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_CTR=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS=y
>         CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_PPC_SPE=y
>         EOF
>         make olddefconfig
>         make -j32
>         qemu-system-ppc -M mpc8544ds -cpu e500 -nographic \
>                 -kernel arch/powerpc/boot/zImage \
>                 -append cryptomgr.fuzz_iterations=1000
>
> Note that xts-ppc-spe still fails the comparison tests due to the lack
> of ciphertext stealing support.  This is not addressed by this series.
>
> Changed since v1:
>
> - Split fixes into separate patches.
>
> - Made ppc_aes_setkey_skcipher() call ppc_aes_setkey(), rather than
>   creating a separate expand_key() function.  This keeps the code
>   shorter.
>
> Eric Biggers (3):
>   crypto: powerpc - don't unnecessarily use atomic scatterwalk
>   crypto: powerpc - don't set ivsize for AES-ECB
>   crypto: powerpc - convert SPE AES algorithms to skcipher API
>

For the series

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>


>  arch/powerpc/crypto/aes-spe-glue.c | 389 ++++++++++++-----------------
>  crypto/Kconfig                     |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.23.0
>


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