crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it

crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.

Covering each of these points in detail:

1. Feature is not being used

Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1

The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't
appear to have happened.

It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.

Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).

Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.

There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.

2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance

Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This
primarily affects systems with a large number of CPUs. For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.

It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.

It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.

3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden

There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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Revert "crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS"

This reverts commit 2beb81fbf0c01a62515a1bcef326168494ee2bd0.

While removing CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a worthy goal, this also
removed unrelated infrastruc

Revert "crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS"

This reverts commit 2beb81fbf0c01a62515a1bcef326168494ee2bd0.

While removing CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a worthy goal, this also
removed unrelated infrastructure such as crypto_comp_alg_common.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it

crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS

Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS). This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.

Covering each of these points in detail:

1. Feature is not being used

Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them. I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist. For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&literal=1&perpkg=1

The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device." This doesn't
appear to have happened.

It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics. Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.

Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).

Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported. For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.

There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.

2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance

Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics. This
primarily affects systems with large number of CPUs. For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.

It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters. But no one has done this in 5+ years. This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.

It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter. But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options. The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above). So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.

3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden

There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files. It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API. After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working". We should be spending this effort elsewhere.

Cc: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - Count error stats differently

Move all stat code specific to kpp into the kpp code.

While we're at it, change the stats so that bytes and counts
are always incremented even in case of

crypto: kpp - Count error stats differently

Move all stat code specific to kpp into the kpp code.

While we're at it, change the stats so that bytes and counts
are always incremented even in case of error. This allows the
reference counting to be removed as we can now increment the
counters prior to the operation.

After the operation we simply increase the error count if necessary.
This is safe as errors can only occur synchronously (or rather,
the existing code already ignored asynchronous errors which are
only visible to the callback function).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - Move reqsize into tfm

The value of reqsize cannot be determined in case of fallbacks.
Therefore it must be stored in the tfm and not the alg object.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert

crypto: kpp - Move reqsize into tfm

The value of reqsize cannot be determined in case of fallbacks.
Therefore it must be stored in the tfm and not the alg object.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: add crypto_has_kpp()

Add helper function to determine if a given key-agreement protocol
primitive is supported.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sag

crypto: add crypto_has_kpp()

Add helper function to determine if a given key-agreement protocol
primitive is supported.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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crypto: api - check for ERR pointers in crypto_destroy_tfm()

Given that crypto_alloc_tfm() may return ERR pointers, and to avoid
crashes on obscure error paths where such pointers are presented to
c

crypto: api - check for ERR pointers in crypto_destroy_tfm()

Given that crypto_alloc_tfm() may return ERR pointers, and to avoid
crashes on obscure error paths where such pointers are presented to
crypto_destroy_tfm() (such as [0]), add an ERR_PTR check there
before dereferencing the second argument as a struct crypto_tfm
pointer.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/

Reported-by: [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

As said by Linus:

A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
Otherwise it's actively misleading.

In "kzalloc()", t

mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

As said by Linus:

A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
Otherwise it's actively misleading.

In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
caller wants.

In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[[email protected]: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[[email protected]: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of th

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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crypto: user - fix use_after_free of struct xxx_request

All crypto_stats functions use the struct xxx_request for feeding stats,
but in some case this structure could already be freed.

For fixing t

crypto: user - fix use_after_free of struct xxx_request

All crypto_stats functions use the struct xxx_request for feeding stats,
but in some case this structure could already be freed.

For fixing this, the needed parameters (len and alg) will be stored
before the request being executed.
Fixes: cac5818c25d0 ("crypto: user - Implement a generic crypto statistics")
Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: user - convert all stats from u32 to u64

All the 32-bit fields need to be 64-bit. In some cases, UINT32_MAX crypto
operations can be done in seconds.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@ke

crypto: user - convert all stats from u32 to u64

All the 32-bit fields need to be 64-bit. In some cases, UINT32_MAX crypto
operations can be done in seconds.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: user - Implement a generic crypto statistics

This patch implement a generic way to get statistics about all crypto
usages.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by:

crypto: user - Implement a generic crypto statistics

This patch implement a generic way to get statistics about all crypto
usages.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - add get/set_flags helpers

These helpers will be used for fallbacks to kpp software
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert X

crypto: kpp - add get/set_flags helpers

These helpers will be used for fallbacks to kpp software
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - assume key is already set in maxsize

As of now, crypto_kpp_maxsize() can not be reached without successfully
setting the key for the transformation. kpp algorithm implementations
check

crypto: kpp - assume key is already set in maxsize

As of now, crypto_kpp_maxsize() can not be reached without successfully
setting the key for the transformation. kpp algorithm implementations
check if the key was set and then return the output buffer size
required for the given key.

Change the return type to unsigned int and always assume that this
function is called after a successful setkey of the transformation.
kpp algorithm implementations will remove the check if key is not NULL
and directly return the max size.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp, (ec)dh - fix typos

While here, add missing argument description (ndigits).

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]

crypto: kpp, (ec)dh - fix typos

While here, add missing argument description (ndigits).

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - constify buffer passed to crypto_kpp_set_secret()

Constify the buffer passed to crypto_kpp_set_secret() and
kpp_alg.set_secret, since it is never modified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

crypto: kpp - constify buffer passed to crypto_kpp_set_secret()

Constify the buffer passed to crypto_kpp_set_secret() and
kpp_alg.set_secret, since it is never modified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: doc - add KPP documentation

Add the KPP API documentation to the kernel crypto API Sphinx
documentation. This addition includes the documentation of the
ECDH and DH helpers which are needed

crypto: doc - add KPP documentation

Add the KPP API documentation to the kernel crypto API Sphinx
documentation. This addition includes the documentation of the
ECDH and DH helpers which are needed to create the approrpiate input
data for the crypto_kpp_set_secret function.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>

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crypto: ecdh - Add ECDH software support

* Implement ECDH under kpp API
* Provide ECC software support for curve P-192 and
P-256.
* Add kpp test for ECDH with data generated by OpenSSL

Signed-

crypto: ecdh - Add ECDH software support

* Implement ECDH under kpp API
* Provide ECC software support for curve P-192 and
P-256.
* Add kpp test for ECDH with data generated by OpenSSL

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: dh - Add DH software implementation

* Implement MPI based Diffie-Hellman under kpp API
* Test provided uses data generad by OpenSSL

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <salvatore.benedetto@

crypto: dh - Add DH software implementation

* Implement MPI based Diffie-Hellman under kpp API
* Test provided uses data generad by OpenSSL

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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crypto: kpp - Key-agreement Protocol Primitives API (KPP)

Add key-agreement protocol primitives (kpp) API which allows to
implement primitives required by protocols such as DH and ECDH.
The API is c

crypto: kpp - Key-agreement Protocol Primitives API (KPP)

Add key-agreement protocol primitives (kpp) API which allows to
implement primitives required by protocols such as DH and ECDH.
The API is composed mainly by the following functions
* set_secret() - It allows the user to set his secret, also
referred to as his private key, along with the parameters
known to both parties involved in the key-agreement session.
* generate_public_key() - It generates the public key to be sent to
the other counterpart involved in the key-agreement session. The
function has to be called after set_params() and set_secret()
* generate_secret() - It generates the shared secret for the session

Other functions such as init() and exit() are provided for allowing
cryptographic hardware to be inizialized properly before use

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Benedetto <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

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