Re: [PATCH v2] lib/crypto: Add FIPS self-tests for SHA-1 and SHA-2

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 05:10:47PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Add FIPS cryptographic algorithm self-tests for all SHA-1 and SHA-2
> algorithms.  Following the "Implementation Guidance for FIPS 140-3"
> document, to achieve this it's sufficient to just test a single test
> vector for each of HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA256, and HMAC-SHA512.
> 
> Just run these tests in the initcalls, following the example of e.g.
> crypto/kdf_sp800108.c.  Note that this should meet the FIPS self-test
> requirement even in the built-in case, given that the initcalls run
> before userspace, storage, network, etc. are accessible.
> 
> This does not fix a regression, seeing as lib/ has had SHA-1 support
> since 2005 and SHA-256 support since 2018.  Neither ever had FIPS
> self-tests.  Moreover, fips=1 support has always been an unfinished
> feature upstream.  However, with lib/ now being used more widely, it's
> now seeing more scrutiny and people seem to want these now.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250917184856.GA2560@quark/
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next

- Eric