kernel/linux.git/crypto/Kconfig, branch v6.12.80

crypto: Kconfig - Select LIB generic option

2025-05-02T05:59:33+00:00

commit 98330b9a61506de7df0d1725122111909c157864 upstream. Select the generic LIB options if the Crypto API algorithm is enabled. Otherwise this may lead to a build failure as the Crypto API algorithm always uses the generic implementation. Fixes: 17ec3e71ba79 ("crypto: lib/Kconfig - Hide arch options from user") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503022113.79uEtUuy-lkp@intel.com/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503022115.9OOyDR5A-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

crypto: lib/Kconfig - Hide arch options from user

2025-05-02T05:59:32+00:00

commit 17ec3e71ba797cdb62164fea9532c81b60f47167 upstream. The ARCH_MAY_HAVE patch missed arm64, mips and s390. But it may also lead to arch options being enabled but ineffective because of modular/built-in conflicts. As the primary user of all these options wireguard is selecting the arch options anyway, make the same selections at the lib/crypto option level and hide the arch options from the user. Instead of selecting them centrally from lib/crypto, simply set the default of each arch option as suggested by Eric Biggers. Change the Crypto API generic algorithms to select the top-level lib/crypto options instead of the generic one as otherwise there is no way to enable the arch options (Eric Biggers). Introduce a set of INTERNAL options to work around dependency cycles on the CONFIG_CRYPTO symbol. Fixes: 1047e21aecdf ("crypto: lib/Kconfig - Fix lib built-in failure when arch is modular") Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502232152.JC84YDLp-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

crypto: jitter - set default OSR to 3

2024-08-24T13:36:07+00:00

The user space Jitter RNG library uses the oversampling rate of 3 which implies that each time stamp is credited with 1/3 bit of entropy. To obtain 256 bits of entropy, 768 time stamps need to be sampled. The increase in OSR is applied based on a report where the Jitter RNG is used on a system exhibiting a challenging environment to collect entropy. This OSR default value is now applied to the Linux kernel version of the Jitter RNG as well. The increase in the OSR from 1 to 3 also implies that the Jitter RNG is now slower by default. Reported-by: Jeff Barnes Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: sm2 - Remove sm2 algorithm

2024-06-07T11:46:39+00:00

The SM2 algorithm has a single user in the kernel. However, it's never been integrated properly with that user: asymmetric_keys. The crux of the issue is that the way it computes its digest with sm3 does not fit into the architecture of asymmetric_keys. As no solution has been proposed, remove this algorithm. It can be resubmitted when it is integrated properly into the asymmetric_keys subsystem. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

2024-04-02T02:49:38+00:00

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature (CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and is a large maintenance burden. Covering each of these points in detail: 1. Feature is not being used Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink, it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example, Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel code itself and translations of the kernel header: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1 The patch series that added this feature in 2018 (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/) said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't appear to have happened. It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean that crypto statistics are useful too. Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix (https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947). Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example, before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases. There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it might be hard to use even if someone wanted to. 2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This primarily affects systems with a large number of CPUs. For example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to 48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS. It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it. It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default, performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux, and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even just having the option available is harmful to users. 3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS, spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere. Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Corentin Labbe Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.9-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2024-03-22T17:41:13+00:00

Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt: - Support for various vector-accelerated crypto routines - Hibernation is now enabled for portable kernel builds - mmap_rnd_bits_max is larger on systems with larger VAs - Support for fast GUP - Support for membarrier-based instruction cache synchronization - Support for the Andes hart-level interrupt controller and PMU - Some cleanups around unaligned access speed probing and Kconfig settings - Support for ACPI LPI and CPPC - Various cleanus related to barriers - A handful of fixes * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.9-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (66 commits) riscv: Fix syscall wrapper for >word-size arguments crypto: riscv - add vector crypto accelerated AES-CBC-CTS crypto: riscv - parallelize AES-CBC decryption riscv: Only flush the mm icache when setting an exec pte riscv: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() riscv/barrier: Add missing space after ',' riscv/barrier: Consolidate fence definitions riscv/barrier: Define RISCV_FULL_BARRIER riscv/barrier: Define __{mb,rmb,wmb} RISC-V: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_ACPI_CPPC_CPUFREQ cpufreq: Move CPPC configs to common Kconfig and add RISC-V ACPI: RISC-V: Add CPPC driver ACPI: Enable ACPI_PROCESSOR for RISC-V ACPI: RISC-V: Add LPI driver cpuidle: RISC-V: Move few functions to arch/riscv riscv: Introduce set_compat_task() in asm/compat.h riscv: Introduce is_compat_thread() into compat.h riscv: add compile-time test into is_compat_task() riscv: Replace direct thread flag check with is_compat_task() riscv: Improve arch_get_mmap_end() macro ...

Revert "crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS"

2024-03-13T01:49:37+00:00

This reverts commit 2beb81fbf0c01a62515a1bcef326168494ee2bd0. While removing CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a worthy goal, this also removed unrelated infrastructure such as crypto_comp_alg_common. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

2024-03-01T10:35:40+00:00

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature (CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and is a large maintenance burden. Covering each of these points in detail: 1. Feature is not being used Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink, it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example, Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel code itself and translations of the kernel header: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1 The patch series that added this feature in 2018 (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/) said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't appear to have happened. It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean that crypto statistics are useful too. Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix (https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947). Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example, before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases. There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it might be hard to use even if someone wanted to. 2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This primarily affects systems with large number of CPUs. For example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to 48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS. It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it. It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default, performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux, and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even just having the option available is harmful to users. 3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS, spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere. Cc: Corentin Labbe Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Corentin Labbe Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text

2024-02-24T00:41:20+00:00

Correct various small problems in the help text: a. change 2 spaces to ", " b. finish an incomplete sentence c. change non-working URL to working URL Fixes: a9a98d49da52 ("crypto: Kconfig - simplify compression/RNG entries") Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218458 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Robert Elliott Cc: Christoph Biedl Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Bagas Sanjaya Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

RISC-V: hook new crypto subdir into build-system

2024-01-23T01:55:17+00:00

Create a crypto subdirectory for added accelerated cryptography routines and hook it into the riscv Kbuild and the main crypto Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Jerry Shih Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122002024.27477-4-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt