linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: crypto: add info about "fips=" boot option

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:00:45 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: crypto: add info about "fips=" boot option

On 3/29/21 9:37 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:00:01PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> +			If fips_enabled = 1, some crypto tests are skipped.
> 
> I don't think any tests are skipped.  It does however disable
> many algorithms by essentially failing them at the testing stage.

That statement was based on crypto/testmgr.c (in 4 places):

		if (fips_enabled && template[i].fips_skip)
			continue;

and

	if (fips_enabled && vec->fips_skip)
		return 0;

and

		if (fips_enabled && !alg_test_descs[i].fips_allowed)
			goto non_fips_alg;

and

	if (fips_enabled && ((i >= 0 && !alg_test_descs[i].fips_allowed) ||
			     (j >= 0 && !alg_test_descs[j].fips_allowed)))
		goto non_fips_alg;


so it appears (at least to me) that there are some methods (infrastructure)
for tests to be skipped, but maybe none are actually using that possiblilty.

In any case, I don't mind dropping that part of the documentation.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy