[PATCH 03/13] crypto: arm64/sha256 - remove obsolete chunking logic

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Sat Apr 26 16:50:29 AEST 2025


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

Since kernel-mode NEON sections are now preemptible on arm64, there is
no longer any need to limit the length of them.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-glue.c | 19 ++-----------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-glue.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-glue.c
index 26f9fdfae87bf..d63ea82e1374e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-glue.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-glue.c
@@ -84,27 +84,12 @@ static struct shash_alg algs[] = { {
 } };
 
 static int sha256_update_neon(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
 			      unsigned int len)
 {
-	do {
-		unsigned int chunk = len;
-
-		/*
-		 * Don't hog the CPU for the entire time it takes to process all
-		 * input when running on a preemptible kernel, but process the
-		 * data block by block instead.
-		 */
-		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPTION))
-			chunk = SHA256_BLOCK_SIZE;
-
-		chunk -= sha256_base_do_update_blocks(desc, data, chunk,
-						      sha256_neon_transform);
-		data += chunk;
-		len -= chunk;
-	} while (len >= SHA256_BLOCK_SIZE);
-	return len;
+	return sha256_base_do_update_blocks(desc, data, len,
+					    sha256_neon_transform);
 }
 
 static int sha256_finup_neon(struct shash_desc *desc, const u8 *data,
 			     unsigned int len, u8 *out)
 {
-- 
2.49.0



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