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From: Li Tian <litian@redhat.com>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] crypto/hkdf: Fix salt length short issue in FIPS mode
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:42:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251126134222.22083-1-litian@redhat.com> (raw)

Under FIPS mode, the hkdf test fails because salt is required
to be at least 32 bytes long. Pad salt with 0's.

Signed-off-by: Li Tian <litian@redhat.com>
---
 crypto/hkdf.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
 fs/crypto/hkdf.c      | 13 -------------
 include/crypto/hkdf.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/hkdf.c b/crypto/hkdf.c
index 82d1b32ca6ce..9af0ef4dfb35 100644
--- a/crypto/hkdf.c
+++ b/crypto/hkdf.c
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ int hkdf_extract(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm, const u8 *ikm,
 		 u8 *prk)
 {
 	int err;
+	u8 tmp_salt[HKDF_HASHLEN];
+
+	if (saltlen < HKDF_HASHLEN) {
+		/* Copy salt and pad with zeros to HashLen */
+		memcpy(tmp_salt, salt, saltlen);
+		memset(tmp_salt + saltlen, 0, HKDF_HASHLEN - saltlen);
+		salt = tmp_salt;
+		saltlen = HKDF_HASHLEN;
+	}
 
 	err = crypto_shash_setkey(hmac_tfm, salt, saltlen);
 	if (!err)
@@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ struct hkdf_testvec {
  */
 static const struct hkdf_testvec hkdf_sha256_tv[] = {
 	{
-		.test = "basic hdkf test",
+		.test = "basic hkdf test",
 		.ikm  = "\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b"
 			"\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b",
 		.ikm_size = 22,
diff --git a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
index 706f56d0076e..5e4844c1d3d7 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
@@ -13,19 +13,6 @@
 
 #include "fscrypt_private.h"
 
-/*
- * HKDF supports any unkeyed cryptographic hash algorithm, but fscrypt uses
- * SHA-512 because it is well-established, secure, and reasonably efficient.
- *
- * HKDF-SHA256 was also considered, as its 256-bit security strength would be
- * sufficient here.  A 512-bit security strength is "nice to have", though.
- * Also, on 64-bit CPUs, SHA-512 is usually just as fast as SHA-256.  In the
- * common case of deriving an AES-256-XTS key (512 bits), that can result in
- * HKDF-SHA512 being much faster than HKDF-SHA256, as the longer digest size of
- * SHA-512 causes HKDF-Expand to only need to do one iteration rather than two.
- */
-#define HKDF_HASHLEN		SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE
-
 /*
  * HKDF consists of two steps:
  *
diff --git a/include/crypto/hkdf.h b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
index 6a9678f508f5..7ef55ce875e2 100644
--- a/include/crypto/hkdf.h
+++ b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@
 
 #include <crypto/hash.h>
 
+/*
+ * HKDF supports any unkeyed cryptographic hash algorithm, but fscrypt uses
+ * SHA-512 because it is well-established, secure, and reasonably efficient.
+ *
+ * HKDF-SHA256 was also considered, as its 256-bit security strength would be
+ * sufficient here.  A 512-bit security strength is "nice to have", though.
+ * Also, on 64-bit CPUs, SHA-512 is usually just as fast as SHA-256.  In the
+ * common case of deriving an AES-256-XTS key (512 bits), that can result in
+ * HKDF-SHA512 being much faster than HKDF-SHA256, as the longer digest size of
+ * SHA-512 causes HKDF-Expand to only need to do one iteration rather than two.
+ */
+#define HKDF_HASHLEN            SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE
+
 int hkdf_extract(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm, const u8 *ikm,
 		 unsigned int ikmlen, const u8 *salt, unsigned int saltlen,
 		 u8 *prk);
-- 
2.50.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-26 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-26 13:42 Li Tian [this message]
2025-11-26 17:41 ` [PATCH RFC] crypto/hkdf: Fix salt length short issue in FIPS mode Eric Biggers
     [not found]   ` <CAHhBTWuOy1nC1rYqye8BzE+unoC+3M9Dsw+Mj54=3eeFwqyTXw@mail.gmail.com>
2025-11-27  1:14     ` Eric Biggers
     [not found]       ` <CAHhBTWsTqP3LzJV+=_usvttJcMFoLYSY5Sqt2H-U-oki3Hu0Mw@mail.gmail.com>
2025-11-27  1:51         ` Eric Biggers
     [not found]           ` <CAHhBTWs6rWq2huD8Ech79OVOxK3v3ijU3KFFOGLQ+pr7277Vew@mail.gmail.com>
2025-11-27  3:23             ` Eric Biggers

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