linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] PM / hibernate: Create snapshot keys handler

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Date:   Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:18:13 +0100
From:   Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
        Ryan Chen <yu.chen.surf@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] PM / hibernate: Create snapshot keys handler

Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2019, 18:34:55 CET schrieb Eric Biggers:

Hi Eric,

> That would not meet my performance requirements as I want to precompute
> HKDF-Extract, and then do HKDF-Expand many times.  Also the HKDF-Expand part
> should be thread-safe and not require allocating memory, especially not a
> whole crypto_shash tfm every time.
> 
> So presumably with crypto_rng, crypto_rng_reset() would need to take the
> input keyring material and salt and do HKDF-Extract (like my
> fscrypt_init_hkdf()), and crypto_rng_generate() would need to take the
> application-specific info string and do HKDF-Expand (like my
> fscrypt_hkdf_expand()).

Great, that was the idea I had in mind as well. Maybe the example was not 
right to convey that. Let me work on that.
> 
> It is ugly though.  Please also consider just having simple crypto_hkdf_*()
> helper functions which wrap a HMAC tfm along the lines of my patch, rather
> than shoehorning it into the crypto_rng API.
> 
> - Eric



Ciao
Stephan