[PATCH v2 08/12] fs-verity: add CRC-32C support

Eric Biggers
2018-11-01T22:55:06Z

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

Add CRC-32C support to fs-verity, to provide a faster alternative to
SHA-256 for users who want integrity-only (not authenticity), i.e. who
want to detect only accidental corruption, not malicious changes.

CRC-32C is chosen over CRC-32 because the CRC-32C polynomial is believed
to provide slightly better error-detection properties; and CRC-32C is
just as fast (or can be just as fast) as CRC-32, or even faster e.g. on
some x86 processors that have a CRC-32C instruction but not CRC-32.

We use "crc32c" from the crypto API, so the polynomial convention is
bitwise little-endian, the digest is bytewise little-endian, and the CRC
bits are inverted at the beginning and end (which is desirable).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
fs/verity/hash_algs.c | 4 ++++
include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/verity/hash_algs.c b/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
index 3174a0c08785d..109afeec60fc9 100644
--- a/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
+++ b/fs/verity/hash_algs.c
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ struct fsverity_hash_alg fsverity_hash_algs[] = {
.digest_size = 64,
.cryptographic = true,
},
+ [FS_VERITY_ALG_CRC32C] = {
+ .name = "crc32c",
+ .digest_size = 4,
+ },
};

/*
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h b/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
index 67ed830ae2ece..a96bbf87077de 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fsverity.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct fsverity_digest {
/* Supported hash algorithms */
#define FS_VERITY_ALG_SHA256 1
#define FS_VERITY_ALG_SHA512 2
+#define FS_VERITY_ALG_CRC32C 3 /* for integrity only */

/* Metadata stored near the end of verity files, after the Merkle tree */
/* This structure is 64 bytes long */
--
2.19.1.568.g152ad8e336-goog