linux-ext4 - [RFC PATCH 06/10] fs-verity: add CRC-32C support

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Date:   Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:16:38 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>,
        Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@...gle.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 06/10] fs-verity: add CRC-32C support

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Add CRC-32C support to fs-verity, to provide a faster alternative to
SHA-256 for users who want integrity-only (not authenticity), i.e. who
want to detect only accidental corruption, not malicious changes.

CRC-32C is chosen over CRC-32 because the CRC-32C polynomial is believed
to provide slightly better error-detection properties; and CRC-32C is
just as fast (or can be just as fast) as CRC-32, or even faster e.g. on
some x86 processors that have a CRC-32C instruction but not CRC-32.

We use "crc32c" from the crypto API, so the polynomial convention is
bitwise little-endian, the digest is bytewise little-endian, and the CRC
bits are inverted at the beginning and end (which is desirable).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 fs/verity/hash_algs.c         | 4 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/verity/hash_algs.c b/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
index e16d767070fec..3fd4bba7c4aa6 100644
--- a/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
+++ b/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ struct fsverity_hash_alg fsverity_hash_algs[] = {
 		.digest_size = 64,
 		.cryptographic = true,
 	},
+	[FS_VERITY_ALG_CRC32C] = {
+		.name = "crc32c",
+		.digest_size = 4,
+	},
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h b/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
index 64846763f7aef..b1afd205bbf87 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct fsverity_digest {
 /* Supported hash algorithms */
 #define FS_VERITY_ALG_SHA256	1
 #define FS_VERITY_ALG_SHA512	2
+#define FS_VERITY_ALG_CRC32C	3	/* for integrity only */
 
 /* Metadata stored near the end of verity files, after the Merkle tree */
 /* This structure is 64 bytes long */
-- 
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