linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: sm4 - create SM4 library based on sm4 generic code

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Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:22:14 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        "Markku-Juhani O . Saarinen" <mjos@....fi>,
        Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@....fi>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
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        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: sm4 - create SM4 library based on sm4 generic code

Hi Tianjia,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:50 PM Tianjia Zhang
<tianjia.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> On 3/1/22 6:34 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> >>   lib/crypto/Kconfig   |   3 +
> >>   lib/crypto/Makefile  |   3 +
> >>   lib/crypto/sm4.c     | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > If this is only used by the crypto API, it does not belong in
> > lib/crypto. I understand you want fallback generic code for the SIMD
> > implementation, but we've generally done that in crypto/ when the use
> > case is only the crypto API. Can you move this to the right place?
>
> This is not only used by the crypto API, but also used for SIMD
> acceleration under the x86 and arm architectures, mainly for processing
> the remaining blocks after SIMD acceleration. In general, the
> performance of SIMD processing a single block is not as good as that of
> general software implementations.

Yes, and those accelerated implementations are part of the crypto API,
and are not used by anything except the crypto API. Hence this should
be in crypto/, just like everything else that is /only/ used for the
cryto API. lib/crypto/ is for in-kernel users of crypto via normal
code paths. sm4.c does not belong in lib/crypto/ and should be moved.

You additional export symbols of those SIMD implementations in
arch/crypto/, which is not correct either, since nothing in the tree
uses those symbols. Please remove those EXPORT_SYMBOL directives as
well. Those functions can be static, and do not need to be declared in
the .h file.

Thanks,
Jason