linux/arch/x86
Eric Biggers 674f368a95 crypto: remove CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN
The CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN flag was apparently meant as a way to
make the ->setkey() functions provide more information about errors.

However, no one actually checks for this flag, which makes it pointless.

Also, many algorithms fail to set this flag when given a bad length key.
Reviewing just the generic implementations, this is the case for
aes-fixed-time, cbcmac, echainiv, nhpoly1305, pcrypt, rfc3686, rfc4309,
rfc7539, rfc7539esp, salsa20, seqiv, and xcbc.  But there are probably
many more in arch/*/crypto/ and drivers/crypto/.

Some algorithms can even set this flag when the key is the correct
length.  For example, authenc and authencesn set it when the key payload
is malformed in any way (not just a bad length), the atmel-sha and ccree
drivers can set it if a memory allocation fails, and the chelsio driver
sets it for bad auth tag lengths, not just bad key lengths.

So even if someone actually wanted to start checking this flag (which
seems unlikely, since it's been unused for a long time), there would be
a lot of work needed to get it working correctly.  But it would probably
be much better to go back to the drawing board and just define different
return values, like -EINVAL if the key is invalid for the algorithm vs.
-EKEYREJECTED if the key was rejected by a policy like "no weak keys".
That would be much simpler, less error-prone, and easier to test.

So just remove this flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2020-01-09 11:30:53 +08:00
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boot ACPI updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-26 19:25:25 -08:00
configs x86: Remove the calgary IOMMU driver 2019-11-15 10:36:59 +01:00
crypto crypto: remove CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN 2020-01-09 11:30:53 +08:00
entry Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-12-01 19:05:07 -08:00
events perf/x86: Implement immediate enforcement of /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc value of 0 2019-11-27 10:32:11 +01:00
hyperv - Support for new VMBus protocols (Andrea Parri). 2019-11-30 14:50:51 -08:00
ia32 syscalls/x86: Use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE0 for IA32 (rt_)sigreturn 2019-10-11 12:49:18 +02:00
include crypto: remove CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN 2020-01-09 11:30:53 +08:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-12-01 19:05:07 -08:00
kvm * PPC secure guest support 2019-12-04 11:08:30 -08:00
lib perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-11-29 06:56:05 +01:00
math-emu Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 10:42:40 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-12-01 20:36:41 -08:00
net bpf: Simplify __bpf_arch_text_poke poke type handling 2019-11-24 17:12:11 -08:00
oprofile x86: Use pr_warn instead of pr_warning 2019-10-18 15:00:18 +02:00
pci pci-v5.5-changes 2019-12-03 13:58:22 -08:00
platform - Core Frameworks 2019-12-01 16:16:31 -08:00
power x86/asm/32: Change all ENTRY+ENDPROC to SYM_FUNC_* 2019-10-18 12:03:43 +02:00
purgatory Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 10:42:40 -08:00
ras RAS/CEC: Add CONFIG_RAS_CEC_DEBUG and move CEC debug features there 2019-06-08 17:39:24 +02:00
realmode Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 10:42:40 -08:00
tools x86/insn: Fix awk regexp warnings 2019-10-01 12:13:16 +02:00
um y2038: syscall implementation cleanups 2019-12-01 14:00:59 -08:00
video treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'x86-iopl-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 11:12:02 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild 2019-05-30 11:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig x86/kasan: support KASAN_VMALLOC 2019-12-01 12:59:06 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/math-emu: Limit MATH_EMULATION to 486SX compatibles 2019-10-03 10:51:17 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86/traps: Disentangle the 32-bit and 64-bit doublefault code 2019-11-26 21:53:34 +01:00
Makefile x86/build: Add -Wnoaddress-of-packed-member to REALMODE_CFLAGS, to silence GCC9 build warning 2019-08-28 17:31:31 +02:00
Makefile.um
Makefile_32.cpu x86/math-emu: Limit MATH_EMULATION to 486SX compatibles 2019-10-03 10:51:17 +02:00