linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] patchable function pointers for pluggable crypto routines

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:28:12 +0200
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
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        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] patchable function pointers for pluggable crypto routines

On 5 October 2018 at 19:26, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 5 October 2018 at 15:37, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> > Therefore, I think this patch goes in exactly the wrong direction. I
>> > mean, if you want to introduce dynamic patching as a means for making
>> > the crypto API's dynamic dispatch stuff not as slow in a post-spectre
>> > world, sure, go for it; that may very well be a good idea. But
>> > presenting it as an alternative to Zinc very widely misses the point and
>> > serves to prolong a series of bad design choices, which are now able to
>> > be rectified by putting energy into Zinc instead.
>> >
>>
>> This series has nothing to do with dynamic dispatch: the call sites
>> call crypto functions using ordinary function calls (although my
>> example uses CRC-T10DIF), and these calls are redirected via what is
>> essentially a PLT entry, so that we can supsersede those routines at
>> runtime.
>
> If you really want to do it PLT-style, then just do:
>
> extern void whatever_func(args);
>
> Call it like:
> whatever_func(args here);
>
> And rig up something to emit asm like:
>
> GLOBAL(whatever_func)
>   jmpq default_whatever_func
> ENDPROC(whatever_func)
>
> Architectures without support can instead do:
>
> void whatever_func(args)
> {
>   READ_ONCE(patchable_function_struct_for_whatever_func->ptr)(args);
> }
>
> and patch the asm function for basic support.  It will be slower than
> necessary, but maybe the relocation trick could be used on top of this
> to redirect the call to whatever_func directly to the target for
> architectures that want to squeeze out the last bit of performance.
> This might actually be the best of all worlds: easy implementation on
> all architectures, no inline asm, and the totally non-magical version
> works with okay performance.
>
> (Is this what your code is doing?  I admit I didn't follow all the way
> through all the macros.)

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