Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2

[Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2018, 07:08:53 CEST schrieb Vinod:

Hi Vinod,

> Thanks for the pointers, it helped me to test the driver :)
> 
> I have two follow up question on crypto:
> 
>  - If there a way to avoid using a global variable in driver to hold the
>    pointer for driver memory? Looks like exynos driver does that.
> 
>    I understand that the crypto callback don't provide driver context as
>    they copy the data structures passed in registration API, but a simpler
>    way to get driver context would be desirable.

Sure the kernel crypto API can and has to maintain a per-instance data 
structure.

See the crypto/drbg.c for instance.

static int drbg_kcapi_random(struct crypto_rng *tfm,
                             const u8 *src, unsigned int slen,
                             u8 *dst, unsigned int dlen)
{
        struct drbg_state *drbg = crypto_rng_ctx(tfm);

static int drbg_kcapi_seed(struct crypto_rng *tfm,
                           const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
{
        struct drbg_state *drbg = crypto_rng_ctx(tfm);

The key is:

        alg->base.cra_ctxsize   = sizeof(struct drbg_state);

during initialization since the kernel crypto API allocates that buffer for 
you and releases it during deallocation.
> 
>  - .seed seems to be mandatory, if I do not set it and even use
>    .seedsize = 0, it panics at crypto_rng_reset(). So is .seed
>    mandatory?

Well, seedsize = 0 just says that the RNG is ready to use after initialization 
(i.e. it does not need to be seeded after initialization).

That does not preclude that a caller wants to reseed.

And yes, .seed must be set.
> 
> Thanks



Ciao
Stephan