Re: [PATCH][RFC] crypto: talitos - add hmac algorithms

[Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:33:57 -0700
<lee.nipper@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add the these hmac algorithms to talitos:
>     hmac(md5),
>     hmac(sha1),
>     hmac(sha256),
>     hmac(sha384),
>     hmac(sha512).
> These are all type ahash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Nipper <lee.nipper@gmail.com>
> ---
> Currently on an 8349E, there's a problem with hmac for
> any talitos hmac sequence requiring an
> intermediate hash context (Pointer DWORD 1);
> the result is an incorrect hmac.
> An intermediate hash context is required for
> something longer than (65536-blocksize), and for other
> cases when update/finup/final are used inefficiently.
> Interestingly, a normal hash (without hmac) works perfectly
> when using an intermediate context.
> So, I solicit any hints/help for figuring this out,
> since this hmac patch is a bust without this being corrected.

I set up an IPsec AH transport mode tunnel between a sec3.0 (8572)
doing crypto in h/w and another in s/w.  When trying to tx a single 64
byte ICMP packet from s/w crypto host to h/w crypto host, I get 2728
(!) talitos IRQs all at once:

[root@hagrid ~]# grep tali /proc/interrupts 
 45:     161575          0    OpenPIC         Level        talitos
[root@hagrid ~]# grep tali /proc/interrupts 
 45:     164303          0    OpenPIC         Level        talitos

and no ICMP reply...will have to investigate this further.

Kim