kernel/linux.git/crypto/crypto_user.c, branch v6.12.80

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

crypto: user - Implement a generic crypto statistics

2018-09-28T04:46:25+00:00

This patch implement a generic way to get statistics about all crypto usages. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: user - Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in crypto_report

2018-02-15T15:26:47+00:00

After checking all possible call chains to crypto_report here, my tool finds that crypto_report is never called in atomic context. And crypto_report calls crypto_alg_match which calls down_read, thus it proves again that crypto_report can call functions which may sleep. Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL. This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

crypto: algapi - convert cra_refcnt to refcount_t

2018-01-05T07:43:09+00:00

Reference counters should use refcount_t rather than atomic_t, since the refcount_t implementation can prevent overflows, reducing the exploitability of reference leak bugs. crypto_alg.cra_refcount is a reference counter with the usual semantics, so switch it over to refcount_t. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Millar: "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that happened this development cycle: 1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri) 2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support (me). 3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me) 4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei Starovoitov) 5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian Westphal) 6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana) 7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger) 8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky) 9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto) 10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh) 11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay Aleksandrov) 12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala) 13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and several others) 14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits) tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream() tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg() net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling net: thunderx: Support for page recycling ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation. qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing. stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64 bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD ...

netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available

2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00

This is an add-on to the previous patch that passes the extended ACK structure where it's already available by existing genl_info or extack function arguments. This was done with this spatch (with some manual adjustment of indentation): @@ expression A, B, C, D, E; identifier fn, info; @@ fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) { ... -nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL) +nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, info->extack) ... } @@ expression A, B, C, D, E; identifier fn, info; @@ fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) { <... -nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL) +nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, info->extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C, D, E; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL) +nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C, D, E; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL) +nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C, D, E; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { ... -nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL) +nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack) ... } @@ expression A, B, C, D; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL) +nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C, D; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL) +nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C, D; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nla_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL) +nla_validate(A, B, C, D, extack) ...> } @@ expression A, B, C; identifier fn, extack; @@ fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) { <... -nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, NULL) +nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, extack) ...> } Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions

2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00

Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers (except for some in the core.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: extended ACK reporting

2017-04-13T17:58:20+00:00

Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't get extended ACK reporting. Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr passing trick and various other ideas. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

crypto: user - Prepare for CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME expansion

2017-04-10T11:17:26+00:00

This patch hard-codes CRYPTO_MAX_NAME in the user-space API to 64, which is the current value of CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME. This patch also replaces all remaining occurences of CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME in the user-space API with CRYPTO_MAX_NAME. This way the user-space API will not be modified when we raise the value of CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME. Furthermore, the code has been updated to handle names longer than the user-space API. They will be truncated. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin Tested-by: Alexander Sverdlin

crypto: acomp - add asynchronous compression api

2016-10-25T03:08:30+00:00

Add acomp, an asynchronous compression api that uses scatterlist buffers. Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu