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Herbert Xu
e853c3cfa8 [CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_type support
This patch adds the crypto_type structure which will be used for all new
crypto algorithm types, beginning with block ciphers.

The primary purpose of this abstraction is to allow different crypto_type
objects for crypto algorithms of the same type, in particular, there will
be a different crypto_type objects for asynchronous algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:51 +10:00
Herbert Xu
8f21cf0d2b [CRYPTO] api: Feed flag directly to crypto_yield
The sleeping flag used to determine whether crypto_yield can actually
yield is really a per-operation flag rather than a per-tfm flag.  This
patch changes crypto_yield to take a flag directly so that we can start
using a per-operation flag instead the tfm flag.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:50 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6d7d684d63 [CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_alloc_base
Up until now all crypto transforms have been of the same type, struct
crypto_tfm, regardless of whether they are ciphers, digests, or other
types.  As a result of that, we check the types at run-time before
each crypto operation.

This is rather cumbersome.  We could instead use different C types for
each crypto type to ensure that the correct types are used at compile
time.  That is, we would have crypto_cipher/crypto_digest instead of
just crypto_tfm.  The appropriate type would then be required for the
actual operations such as crypto_digest_digest.

Now that we have the type/mask fields when looking up algorithms, it
is easy to request for an algorithm of the precise type that the user
wants.  However, crypto_alloc_tfm currently does not expose these new
attributes.

This patch introduces the function crypto_alloc_base which will carry
these new parameters.  It will be renamed to crypto_alloc_tfm once
all existing users have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:50 +10:00
Herbert Xu
f3f632d61a [CRYPTO] api: Added asynchronous flag
This patch adds the asynchronous flag and changes all existing users to
only look up algorithms that are synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:49 +10:00
Herbert Xu
7fed0bf271 [CRYPTO] api: Add common instance initialisation code
This patch adds the helpers crypto_get_attr_alg and crypto_alloc_instance
which can be used by simple one-argument templates like hmac to process
input parameters and allocate instances.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:04 +10:00
Herbert Xu
df89820ebd [CRYPTO] cipher: Removed special IV checks for ECB
This patch makes IV operations on ECB fail through nocrypt_iv rather than
calling BUG().  This is needed to generalise CBC/ECB using the template
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:03 +10:00
Herbert Xu
c907ee76d8 [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Use test_hash for crc32c
Now that crc32c has been fixed to conform with standard digest semantics,
we can use test_hash for it.  I've turned the last test into a chunky
test.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:03 +10:00
Herbert Xu
ee7564166d [CRYPTO] digest: Store temporary digest in tfm
When the final result location is unaligned, we store the digest in a
temporary buffer before copying it to the final location.  Currently
that buffer sits on the stack.  This patch moves it to an area in the
tfm, just like the CBC IV buffer.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
Herbert Xu
560c06ae1a [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey
Now that the tfm is passed directly to setkey instead of the ctx, we no
longer need to pass the &tfm->crt_flags pointer.

This patch also gets rid of a few unnecessary checks on the key length
for ciphers as the cipher layer guarantees that the key length is within
the bounds specified by the algorithm.

Rather than testing dia_setkey every time, this patch does it only once
during crypto_alloc_tfm.  The redundant check from crypto_digest_setkey
is also removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
Herbert Xu
25cdbcd9e5 [CRYPTO] crc32c: Fix unconventional setkey usage
The convention for setkey is that once it is set it should not change,
in particular, init must not wipe out the key set by it.  In fact, init
should always be used after setkey before any digestion is performed.

The only user of crc32c that sets the key is tcrypt.  This patch adds
the necessary init calls there.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:01 +10:00
Michal Ludvig
b3be9a6d9a [CRYPTO] sha: Add module aliases for sha1 / sha256
Crypto modules should be loadable by their .cra_driver_name, so
we should make MODULE_ALIAS()es with these names. This patch adds
aliases for SHA1 and SHA256 only as that's what we need for
PadLock-SHA driver.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:40:20 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6bfd48096f [CRYPTO] api: Added spawns
Spawns lock a specific crypto algorithm in place.  They can then be used
with crypto_spawn_tfm to allocate a tfm for that algorithm.  When the base
algorithm of a spawn is deregistered, all its spawns will be automatically
removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:39:29 +10:00
Herbert Xu
492e2b63eb [CRYPTO] api: Allow algorithm lookup by type
This patch also adds the infrastructure to pick an algorithm based on
their type.  For example, this allows you to select the encryption
algorithm "aes", instead of any algorithm registered under the name
"aes".  For now this is only accessible internally.  Eventually it
will be made available through crypto_alloc_tfm.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:35:17 +10:00
Herbert Xu
2b8c19dbdc [CRYPTO] api: Add cryptomgr
The cryptomgr module is a simple manager of crypto algorithm instances.
It ensures that parameterised algorithms of the type tmpl(alg) (e.g.,
cbc(aes)) are always created.

This is meant to satisfy the needs for most users.  For more complex
cases such as deeper combinations or multiple parameters, a netlink
module will be created which allows arbitrary expressions to be parsed
in user-space.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:31:44 +10:00
Herbert Xu
2825982d9d [CRYPTO] api: Added event notification
This patch adds a notifier chain for algorithm/template registration events.
This will be used to register compound algorithms such as cbc(aes).  In
future this will also be passed onto user-space through netlink.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:17:13 +10:00
Herbert Xu
4cc7720cd1 [CRYPTO] api: Add template registration
A crypto_template generates a crypto_alg object when given a set of
parameters.  this patch adds the basic data structure fo templates
and code to handle their registration/deregistration.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:17:12 +10:00
Herbert Xu
cce9e06d10 [CRYPTO] api: Split out low-level API
The crypto API is made up of the part facing users such as IPsec and the
low-level part which is used by cryptographic entities such as algorithms.
This patch splits out the latter so that the two APIs are more clearly
delineated.  As a bonus the low-level API can now be modularised if all
algorithms are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:30 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6521f30273 [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_alg reference counting
Up until now we've relied on module reference counting to ensure that the
crypto_alg structures don't disappear from under us.  This was good enough
as long as each crypto_alg came from exactly one module.

However, with parameterised crypto algorithms a crypto_alg object may need
two or more modules to operate.  This means that we need to count the
references to the crypto_alg object directly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:16:29 +10:00
Herbert Xu
72fa491912 [CRYPTO] api: Rename crypto_alg_get to crypto_mod_get
The functions crypto_alg_get and crypto_alg_put operates on the crypto
modules rather than the algorithms.  Therefore it makes sense to call
them crypto_mod_get and crypto_alg_put respectively.

This is needed because we need to have real algorithm reference counters
for parameterised algorithms as they can be unregistered from below by
when their parameter algorithms are themselves unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:16:29 +10:00
Joachim Fritschi
eaf44088ff [CRYPTO] twofish: x86-64 assembly version
The patch passed the trycpt tests and automated filesystem tests.
This rewrite resulted in some nice perfomance increase over my last patch.

Short summary of the tcrypt benchmarks:

Twofish Assembler vs. Twofish C (256bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: -27% Cycles
decrypt: -23% Cycles

Twofish Assembler vs. AES Assembler (128bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: +18%  Cycles
decrypt: +15% Cycles

Twofish Assembler vs. AES Assembler (256bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: -9% Cycles
decrypt: -8% Cycles

Full Output:
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-twofish-c-x86_64.txt
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-twofish-asm-x86_64.txt
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-aes-asm-x86_64.txt


Here is another bonnie++ benchmark with encrypted filesystems. Most runs maxed
out the hd. It should give some idea what the module can do for encrypted filesystem
performance even though you can't see the full numbers.

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/output_20060610_130806_x86_64.html

Signed-off-by: Joachim Fritschi <jfritschi@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:29 +10:00
Joachim Fritschi
b9f535ffe3 [CRYPTO] twofish: i586 assembly version
The patch passed the trycpt tests and automated filesystem tests.
This rewrite resulted in some nice perfomance increase over my last patch.

Short summary of the tcrypt benchmarks:

Twofish Assembler vs. Twofish C (256bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: -33% Cycles
decrypt: -45% Cycles

Twofish Assembler vs. AES Assembler (128bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: +3%  Cycles
decrypt: -22% Cycles

Twofish Assembler vs. AES Assembler (256bit 8kb block CBC)
encrypt: -20% Cycles
decrypt: -36% Cycles

Full Output:
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-twofish-asm-i586.txt
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-twofish-c-i586.txt
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/tcrypt-speed-aes-asm-i586.txt


Here is another bonnie++ benchmark with encrypted filesystems. All runs with
the twofish assembler modules max out the drivespeed. It should give some
idea what the module can do for encrypted filesystem performance even though
you can't see the full numbers.

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~fritschi/twofish/output_20060611_205432_x86.html

Signed-off-by: Joachim Fritschi <jfritschi@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:28 +10:00
Joachim Fritschi
758f570ea7 [CRYPTO] twofish: Fix the priority
This patch adds a proper driver name and priority to the generic c
implemtation to allow coexistance of c and assembler modules.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Fritschi <jfritschi@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:28 +10:00
Joachim Fritschi
2729bb427f [CRYPTO] twofish: Split out common c code
This patch splits up the twofish crypto routine into a common part ( key
setup  ) which will be uses by all twofish crypto modules ( generic-c , i586
assembler and x86_64 assembler ) and generic-c part. It also creates a new
header file which will be used by all 3 modules.

This eliminates all code duplication.

Correctness was verified with the tcrypt module and automated test scripts.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Fritschi <jfritschi@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:27 +10:00
Herbert Xu
b9d0a25a48 [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Forbid tcrypt from being built-in
It makes no sense to build tcrypt into the kernel.  In fact, now that
the driver init function's return status is being checked, it is in
fact harmful to do so.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:42 +10:00
Michal Ludvig
e805792851 [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Speed benchmark support for digest algorithms
This patch adds speed tests (benchmarks) for digest algorithms.
Tests are run with different buffer sizes (16 bytes, ... 8 kBytes)
and with each buffer multiple tests are run with different update()
sizes (e.g. hash 64 bytes buffer in four 16 byte updates).
There is no correctness checking of the result and all tests and
algorithms use the same input buffer.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:41 +10:00
Michal Ludvig
14fdf477a7 [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Return -EAGAIN from module_init()
Intentionaly return -EAGAIN from module_init() to ensure
it doesn't stay loaded in the kernel.  The module does all
its work from init() and doesn't offer any runtime
functionality => we don't need it in the memory, do we?

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:41 +10:00
Herbert Xu
996e2523cc [CRYPTO] api: Allow replacement when registering new algorithms
We already allow asynchronous removal of existing algorithm modules.  By
allowing the replacement of existing algorithms, we can replace algorithms
without having to wait for for all existing users to complete.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:41 +10:00
Herbert Xu
d913ea0d6b [CRYPTO] api: Removed const from cra_name/cra_driver_name
We do need to change these names now and even more so in future with
instantiated algorithms.  So let's stop lying to the compiler and get
rid of the const modifiers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:40 +10:00
Herbert Xu
c7fc05992a [CRYPTO] api: Added cra_init/cra_exit
This patch adds the hooks cra_init/cra_exit which are called during a tfm's
construction and destruction respectively.  This will be used by the instances
to allocate child tfm's.

For now this lets us get rid of the coa_init/coa_exit functions which are
used for exactly that purpose (unlike the dia_init function which is called
for each transaction).

In fact the coa_exit path is currently buggy as it may get called twice
when an error is encountered during initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:40 +10:00
Michal Ludvig
110bf1c0e9 [CRYPTO] api: Fixed incorrect passing of context instead of tfm
Fix a few omissions in passing TFM instead of CTX to algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:40 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6c2bb98bc3 [CRYPTO] all: Pass tfm instead of ctx to algorithms
Up until now algorithms have been happy to get a context pointer since
they know everything that's in the tfm already (e.g., alignment, block
size).

However, once we have parameterised algorithms, such information will
be specific to each tfm.  So the algorithm API needs to be changed to
pass the tfm structure instead of the context pointer.

This patch is basically a text substitution.  The only tricky bit is
the assembly routines that need to get the context pointer offset
through asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:39 +10:00
Herbert Xu
43600106e3 [CRYPTO] digest: Remove unnecessary zeroing during init
Various digest algorithms operate one block at a time and therefore
keep a temporary buffer of partial blocks.  This buffer does not need
to be initialised since there is a counter which indicates what is and
isn't valid in it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:38 +10:00
Atsushi Nemoto
e1147d8f47 [CRYPTO] digest: Add alignment handling
Some hash modules load/store data words directly.  The digest layer
should pass properly aligned buffer to update()/final() method.  This
patch also add cra_alignmask to some hash modules.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:38 +10:00
Atsushi Nemoto
d00e708cef [CRYPTO] khazad: Use 32-bit reads on key
On 64-bit platform, reading 64-bit keys (which is supposed to be
32-bit aligned) at a time will result in unaligned access.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-06-26 17:34:37 +10:00
David McCullough
55e9dce37d [CRYPTO] aes: Fixed array boundary violation
The AES setkey routine writes 64 bytes to the E_KEY area even though
there are only 60 bytes there.  It is in fact safe since E_KEY is
immediately follwed by D_KEY which is initialised afterwards.  However,
doing this may trigger undefined behaviour and makes Coverity unhappy.

So by combining E_KEY and D_KEY into one array we sidestep this issue
altogether.

This problem was reported by Adrian Bunk.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:10 +11:00
Atsushi Nemoto
06b42aa94b [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Fix key alignment
Force 32-bit alignment on keys in tcrypt test vectors.  Also rearrange the
structure to prevent unnecessary padding.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:09 +11:00
Atsushi Nemoto
20ea340489 [CRYPTO] all: Add missing cra_alignmask
The "des3_ede" and "serpent" lack cra_alignmask.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:09 +11:00
Eric Sesterhenn
bbeb563f7b [CRYPTO] all: Use kzalloc where possible
this patch converts crypto/ to kzalloc usage.
Compile tested with allyesconfig.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:08 +11:00
Herbert Xu
f10b7897ee [CRYPTO] api: Align tfm context as wide as possible
Since tfm contexts can contain arbitrary types we should provide at least
natural alignment (__attribute__ ((__aligned__))) for them.  In particular,
this is needed on the Xscale which is a 32-bit architecture with a u64 type
that requires 64-bit alignment.  This problem was reported by Ronen Shitrit.

The crypto_tfm structure's size was 44 bytes on 32-bit architectures and
80 bytes on 64-bit architectures.  So adding this requirement only means
that we have to add an extra 4 bytes on 32-bit architectures.

On i386 the natural alignment is 16 bytes which also benefits the VIA
Padlock as it no longer has to manually align its context structure to
128 bits.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:08 +11:00
Denis Vlasenko
a5f8c47305 [CRYPTO] twofish: Use rol32/ror32 where appropriate
Convert open coded rotations to rol32/ror32.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-03-21 20:14:08 +11:00
Al Viro
1b8623545b [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes.
A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get
pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early).  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:56:35 -05:00
Herbert Xu
a429d2609c [CRYPTO] cipher: Set alignmask for multi-byte loads
Many cipher implementations use 4-byte/8-byte loads/stores which require
alignment on some architectures.  This patch explicitly sets the alignment
requirements for them.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:16:00 -08:00
Herbert Xu
7302533aac [CRYPTO] api: Require block size to be less than PAGE_SIZE/8
The cipher code path may allocate up to two blocks of data on the stack.
Therefore we need to place limits on the maximum block size.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:58 -08:00
Herbert Xu
bcb0ad2b34 [CRYPTO] sha1: Fixed off-by-64 bug in sha1_update
After a partial update, the done pointer is off to the right by 64 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:56 -08:00
Herbert Xu
827c3911d8 [CRYPTO] cipher: Align temporary buffer in cbc_process_decrypt
Since the temporary buffer is used as an argument to cia_decrypt, it must be
aligned by cra_alignmask.  This bug was found by linux@horizon.com.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:49 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa9b98fdab [CRYPTO] sha1: Avoid shifting count left and right
This patch avoids shifting the count left and right needlessly for each
call to sha1_update().  It instead can be done only once at the end in
sha1_final().

Keeping the previous test example (sha1_update() successively called with
len=64), a 1.3% performance increase can be observed on i386, or 0.2% on
ARM.  The generated code is also smaller on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:46 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
9d70a6c86c [CRYPTO] sha1: Rename i/j to done/partial
This patch gives more descriptive names to the variables i and j.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:44 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
cfa8d17cc8 [CRYPTO] sha1: Avoid useless memcpy()
The current code unconditionally copy the first block for every call to
sha1_update().  This can be avoided if there is no pending partial block.
This is always the case on the first call to sha1_update() (if the length
is >= 64 of course.

Furthermore, temp does need to be called if sha_transform is never invoked.
Also consolidate the sha_transform calls into one to reduce code size.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:41 -08:00
Herbert Xu
c8a19c91b5 [CRYPTO] Allow AES C/ASM implementations to coexist
As the Crypto API now allows multiple implementations to be registered
for the same algorithm, we no longer have to play tricks with Kconfig
to select the right AES implementation.

This patch sets the driver name and priority for all the AES
implementations and removes the Kconfig conditions on the C implementation
for AES.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:39 -08:00
Herbert Xu
5cb1454b86 [CRYPTO] Allow multiple implementations of the same algorithm
This is the first step on the road towards asynchronous support in
the Crypto API.  It adds support for having multiple crypto_alg objects
for the same algorithm registered in the system.

For example, each device driver would register a crypto_alg object
for each algorithm that it supports.  While at the same time the
user may load software implementations of those same algorithms.

Users of the Crypto API may then select a specific implementation
by name, or choose any implementation for a given algorithm with
the highest priority.

The priority field is a 32-bit signed integer.  In future it will be
possible to modify it from user-space.

This also provides a solution to the problem of selecting amongst
various AES implementations, that is, aes vs. aes-i586 vs. aes-padlock.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:37 -08:00