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* [PATCH -stable] arm: crypto: reduce priority of bit-sliced AES cipher
@ 2017-11-17 19:50 Eric Biggers
  2017-11-17 20:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2017-11-17 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, linux-crypto, Eric Biggers

Hi,

I'd like the following patch to be applied to stable for versions
between 4.1 and 4.10 (inclusively).

This is a minimal fix for a bug where arm32 kernels can use a much
slower implementation of AES than is actually available, potentially
forcing vendors to disable encryption on their devices.

Min version is 4.1 because that was the first version to include the
aes-ce algorithms.

Max version is 4.10 because in 4.11, this bug was fixed incidentally as
part of a complete rewrite of the bit-sliced AES implementation.

---8<---

All the aes-bs (bit-sliced) and aes-ce (cryptographic extensions)
algorithms had a priority of 300.  This is undesirable because it means
an aes-bs algorithm may be used when an aes-ce algorithm is available.
The aes-ce algorithms have much better performance (up to 10x faster).

Fix it by decreasing the priority of the aes-bs algorithms to 250.

This was fixed upstream by commit cc477bf64573 ("crypto: arm/aes -
replace bit-sliced OpenSSL NEON code"), but it was just a small part of
a complete rewrite.  This patch just fixes the priority bug for older
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c b/arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c
index 0511a6cafe24..5d934a0039d7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c
+++ b/arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct crypto_alg aesbs_algs[] = { {
 }, {
 	.cra_name		= "cbc(aes)",
 	.cra_driver_name	= "cbc-aes-neonbs",
-	.cra_priority		= 300,
+	.cra_priority		= 250,
 	.cra_flags		= CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER|CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC,
 	.cra_blocksize		= AES_BLOCK_SIZE,
 	.cra_ctxsize		= sizeof(struct async_helper_ctx),
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static struct crypto_alg aesbs_algs[] = { {
 }, {
 	.cra_name		= "ctr(aes)",
 	.cra_driver_name	= "ctr-aes-neonbs",
-	.cra_priority		= 300,
+	.cra_priority		= 250,
 	.cra_flags		= CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER|CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC,
 	.cra_blocksize		= 1,
 	.cra_ctxsize		= sizeof(struct async_helper_ctx),
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct crypto_alg aesbs_algs[] = { {
 }, {
 	.cra_name		= "xts(aes)",
 	.cra_driver_name	= "xts-aes-neonbs",
-	.cra_priority		= 300,
+	.cra_priority		= 250,
 	.cra_flags		= CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER|CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC,
 	.cra_blocksize		= AES_BLOCK_SIZE,
 	.cra_ctxsize		= sizeof(struct async_helper_ctx),
-- 
2.15.0.448.gf294e3d99a-goog

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2017-11-19 10:33 ` Patch "[PATCH -stable] arm: crypto: reduce priority of bit-sliced AES cipher" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree gregkh
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