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Herbert Xu d06854f024 crypto: api - Add crypto_attr_alg2 helper
This patch adds the helper crypto_attr_alg2 which is similar to
crypto_attr_alg but takes an extra frontend argument.  This is
intended to be used by new style algorithm types such as shash.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-07-08 18:58:29 +08:00
Alex Riesen aa07a6990f crypto: api - Use formatting of module name
Besdies, for the old code, gcc-4.3.3 produced this warning:
  "format not a string literal and no format arguments"

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-06-02 14:13:14 +10:00
Johannes Weiner 811d8f0626 crypto: api - Use kzfree
Use kzfree() instead of memset() + kfree().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-06-02 14:04:11 +10:00
Herbert Xu 37fc334cc8 crypto: api - Fix algorithm module auto-loading
The commit a760a6656e (crypto:
api - Fix module load deadlock with fallback algorithms) broke
the auto-loading of algorithms that require fallbacks.  The
problem is that the fallback mask check is missing an and which
cauess bits that should be considered to interfere with the
result.

Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-04-21 13:27:16 +08:00
Linus Torvalds 562f477a54 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:34 -07:00
Herbert Xu a760a6656e crypto: api - Fix module load deadlock with fallback algorithms
With the mandatory algorithm testing at registration, we have
now created a deadlock with algorithms requiring fallbacks.
This can happen if the module containing the algorithm requiring
fallback is loaded first, without the fallback module being loaded
first.  The system will then try to test the new algorithm, find
that it needs to load a fallback, and then try to load that.

As both algorithms share the same module alias, it can attempt
to load the original algorithm again and block indefinitely.

As algorithms requiring fallbacks are a special case, we can fix
this by giving them a different module alias than the rest.  Then
it's just a matter of using the right aliases according to what
algorithms we're trying to find.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-26 14:06:31 +08:00
Herbert Xu 3f683d6175 crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
This is based on a report and patch by Geert Uytterhoeven.

The functions crypto_alloc_tfm and create_create_tfm return a
pointer that needs to be adjusted by the caller when successful
and otherwise an error value.  This means that the caller has
to check for the error and only perform the adjustment if the
pointer returned is valid.

Since all callers want to make the adjustment and we know how
to adjust it ourselves, it's much easier to just return adjusted
pointer directly.

The only caveat is that we have to return a void * instead of
struct crypto_tfm *.  However, this isn't that bad because both
of these functions are for internal use only (by types code like
shash.c, not even algorithms code).

This patch also moves crypto_alloc_tfm into crypto/internal.h
(crypto_create_tfm is already there) to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-18 16:56:59 +08:00
Herbert Xu ff753308d2 crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
As it stands crypto_alg_mod_lookup will search either tested or
untested algorithms, but never both at the same time.  However,
we need exactly that when constructing givcipher and aead so
this patch adds support for that by setting the tested bit in
type but clearing it in mask.  This combination is currently
unused.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-18 16:49:43 +08:00
Herbert Xu 7b2cd92adc crypto: api - Fix zeroing on free
Geert Uytterhoeven pointed out that we're not zeroing all the
memory when freeing a transform.  This patch fixes it by calling
ksize to ensure that we zero everything in sight.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-05 16:48:53 +11:00
Herbert Xu 7b0bac64cd crypto: api - Rebirth of crypto_alloc_tfm
This patch reintroduces a completely revamped crypto_alloc_tfm.
The biggest change is that we now take two crypto_type objects
when allocating a tfm, a frontend and a backend.  In fact this
simply formalises what we've been doing behind the API's back.

For example, as it stands crypto_alloc_ahash may use an
actual ahash algorithm or a crypto_hash algorithm.  Putting
this in the API allows us to do this much more cleanly.

The existing types will be converted across gradually.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:24 +11:00
Herbert Xu 4a7794860b crypto: api - Move type exit function into crypto_tfm
The type exit function needs to undo any allocations done by the type
init function.  However, the type init function may differ depending
on the upper-level type of the transform (e.g., a crypto_blkcipher
instantiated as a crypto_ablkcipher).

So we need to move the exit function out of the lower-level
structure and into crypto_tfm itself.

As it stands this is a no-op since nobody uses exit functions at
all.  However, all cases where a lower-level type is instantiated
as a different upper-level type (such as blkcipher as ablkcipher)
will be converted such that they allocate the underlying transform
and use that instead of casting (e.g., crypto_ablkcipher casted
into crypto_blkcipher).  That will need to use a different exit
function depending on the upper-level type.

This patch also allows the type init/exit functions to call (or not)
cra_init/cra_exit instead of always calling them from the top level.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:23 +11:00
Herbert Xu 73d3864a48 crypto: api - Use test infrastructure
This patch makes use of the new testing infrastructure by requiring
algorithms to pass a run-time test before they're made available to
users.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-08-29 15:49:57 +10:00
Herbert Xu c51b6c8102 crypto: api - Export crypto_alg_lookup instead of __crypto_alg_lookup
Since the only user of __crypto_alg_lookup is doing exactly what
crypto_alg_lookup does, we can now the latter in lieu of the former.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-08-29 15:48:55 +10:00
Loc Ho 004a403c2e [CRYPTO] hash: Add asynchronous hash support
This patch adds asynchronous hash and digest support.

Signed-off-by: Loc Ho <lho@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-07-10 20:35:13 +08:00
Sebastian Siewior c3715cb90f [CRYPTO] api: Make the crypto subsystem fully modular
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-04-21 10:19:23 +08:00
Herbert Xu b9c55aa475 [CRYPTO] skcipher: Create default givcipher instances
This patch makes crypto_alloc_ablkcipher/crypto_grab_skcipher always
return algorithms that are capable of generating their own IVs through
givencrypt and givdecrypt.  Each algorithm may specify its default IV
generator through the geniv field.

For algorithms that do not set the geniv field, the blkcipher layer will
pick a default.  Currently it's chainiv for synchronous algorithms and
eseqiv for asynchronous algorithms.  Note that if these wrappers do not
work on an algorithm then that algorithm must specify its own geniv or
it can't be used at all.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-11 08:16:46 +11:00
John Anthony Kazos Jr 991d17403c crypto: convert "crypto" subdirectory to UTF-8
Convert the subdirectory "crypto" to UTF-8. The files changed are
<crypto/fcrypt.c> and <crypto/api.c>.

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:06:17 +02:00
Herbert Xu fe3c5206ad [CRYPTO] api: Wake up all waiters when larval completes
Right now when a larval matures or when it dies of an error we
only wake up one waiter.  This would cause other waiters to timeout
unnecessarily.  This patch changes it to use complete_all to wake
up all waiters.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-07-11 20:58:53 +08:00
Herbert Xu da7cd59ab9 [CRYPTO] api: Read module pointer before freeing algorithm
The function crypto_mod_put first frees the algorithm and then drops
the reference to its module.  Unfortunately we read the module pointer
which after freeing the algorithm and that pointer sits inside the
object that we just freed.

So this patch reads the module pointer out before we free the object.

Thanks to Luca Tettamanti for reporting this.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-05-19 14:51:00 +10:00
Herbert Xu 27d2a33007 [CRYPTO] api: Allow multiple frontends per backend
This patch adds support for multiple frontend types for each backend
algorithm by passing the type and mask through to the backend type
init function.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-02-07 09:21:01 +11:00
Herbert Xu f1ddcaf339 [CRYPTO] api: Remove deprecated interface
This patch removes the old cipher interface and related code.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-02-07 09:21:00 +11:00
Adrian Bunk cc44215eaa [CRYPTO] api: Remove unused functions
This patch removes the following no longer used functions:
- api.c: crypto_alg_available()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_init()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_update()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_final()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_digest()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:54 -08:00
Akinobu Mita 9765d262b8 [CRYPTO] api: fix crypto_alloc_base() return value
This patch makes crypto_alloc_base() return proper return value.

- If kzalloc() failure happens within __crypto_alloc_tfm(),
  crypto_alloc_base() returns NULL. But crypto_alloc_base()
  is supposed to return error code as pointer. So this patch
  makes it return -ENOMEM in that case.

- crypto_alloc_base() is suppose to return -EINTR, if it is
  interrupted by signal. But it may not return -EINTR.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-10-11 22:29:51 +10:00
Herbert Xu fce32d70ba [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
This patch adds the crypto_comp type to complete the compile-time checking
conversion.  The functions crypto_has_alg and crypto_has_cipher, etc. are
also added to replace crypto_alg_available.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:21 +10:00
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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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
Herbert Xu 1b40efd772 [CRYPTO] Check cra_alignmask against cra_blocksize
The cipher code relies on the fact that the block size is a multiple
of the required alignment.  So we should check this at the time of
algorith registration.  We also ensure that the block size is bounded
by the page size.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-10-30 11:19:43 +11:00
Herbert Xu 64baf3cfea [CRYPTO]: Added CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP flag
The crypto layer currently uses in_atomic() to determine whether it is
allowed to sleep.  This is incorrect since spin locks don't always cause
in_atomic() to return true.

Instead of that, this patch returns to an earlier idea of a per-tfm flag
which determines whether sleeping is allowed.  Unlike the earlier version,
the default is to not allow sleeping.  This ensures that no existing code
can break.

As usual, this flag may either be set through crypto_alloc_tfm(), or
just before a specific crypto operation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-01 17:43:05 -07:00
Jesper Juhl a61cc44812 [CRYPTO] Add null short circuit to crypto_free_tfm
As far as I'm aware there's a general concensus that functions that are
responsible for freeing resources should be able to cope with being passed
a NULL pointer. This makes sense as it removes the need for all callers to
check for NULL, thus elliminating the bugs that happen when some forget
(safer to just check centrally in the freeing function) and it also makes
for smaller code all over due to the lack of all those NULL checks.
This patch makes it safe to pass the crypto_free_tfm() function a NULL
pointer. Once this patch is applied we can start removing the NULL checks
from the callers.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-06 13:54:31 -07:00
Herbert Xu fbdae9f3e7 [CRYPTO] Ensure cit_iv is aligned correctly
This patch ensures that cit_iv is aligned according to cra_alignmask
by allocating it as part of the tfm structure.  As a side effect the
crypto layer will also guarantee that the tfm ctx area has enough space
to be aligned by cra_alignmask.  This allows us to remove the extra
space reservation from the Padlock driver.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-06 13:53:29 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 176c3652c5 [CRYPTO] Make crypto_alg_lookup static
This patch makes a needlessly global function static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-06 13:53:09 -07:00
Herbert Xu 9547737799 [CRYPTO] Add alignmask for low-level cipher implementations
The VIA Padlock device requires the input and output buffers to
be aligned on 16-byte boundaries.  This patch adds the alignmask
attribute for low-level cipher implementations to indicate their
alignment requirements.

The mid-level crypt() function will copy the input/output buffers
if they are not aligned correctly before they are passed to the
low-level implementation.

Strictly speaking, some of the software implementations require
the buffers to be aligned on 4-byte boundaries as they do 32-bit
loads.  However, it is not clear whether it is better to copy
the buffers or pay the penalty for unaligned loads/stores.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-06 13:52:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00