linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: shash - Allow cloning on algorithms with no init

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 11:31:30 +0200
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: shash - Allow cloning on algorithms with no init_tfm

On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 11:04, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:54:11AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > Does this imply that the cmac-aes-ce and cmac-aes-neon implementations
> > for arm64 need a similar treatment?
>
> Good catch.  Since these don't have init functions we can deal
> with them at a higher level:
>
> ---8<---
> Some shash algorithms are so simple that they don't have an init_tfm
> function.  These can be cloned trivially.  Check this before failing
> in crypto_clone_shash.
>

OK. So IIUC, cloning a keyless hash just shares the TFM and bumps the
refcount, but here we must actually allocate a new TFM referring to
the same algo, and this new TFM needs its key to be set before use, as
it doesn't inherit it from the clonee, right? And this works in the
same way as cloning an instance of the generic HMAC template, as this
will just clone the inner shash too, and will also leave the key
unset.

If so,

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>

If not, could you explain it to me again? :-)


> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>
> diff --git a/crypto/shash.c b/crypto/shash.c
> index 717b42df3495..1fadb6b59bdc 100644
> --- a/crypto/shash.c
> +++ b/crypto/shash.c
> @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ struct crypto_shash *crypto_clone_shash(struct crypto_shash *hash)
>                 return hash;
>         }
>
> -       if (!alg->clone_tfm)
> +       if (!alg->clone_tfm && (alg->init_tfm || alg->base.cra_init))
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
>
>         nhash = crypto_clone_tfm(&crypto_shash_type, tfm);
> @@ -606,10 +606,12 @@ struct crypto_shash *crypto_clone_shash(struct crypto_shash *hash)
>
>         nhash->descsize = hash->descsize;
>
> -       err = alg->clone_tfm(nhash, hash);
> -       if (err) {
> -               crypto_free_shash(nhash);
> -               return ERR_PTR(err);
> +       if (alg->clone_tfm) {
> +               err = alg->clone_tfm(nhash, hash);
> +               if (err) {
> +                       crypto_free_shash(nhash);
> +                       return ERR_PTR(err);
> +               }
>         }
>
>         return nhash;
> --
> Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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