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| author |   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2019-04-14 17:37:09 -0700 |
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| committer |   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2019-04-25 15:38:12 +0800 |
| commit | 877b5691f27a1aec0d9b53095a323e45c30069e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 59eba93e8d253fb0e12a0a2040de99e96e873933 /security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | |
| parent | crypto: nx - don't abuse shash MAY_SLEEP flag (diff) | |
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crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags
The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.
With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP. These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping. For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API. However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.
Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk. It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.
Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c index c37d08118af5..e11564eb645b 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c @@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ out: return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); desc->tfm = *tfm; - desc->flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP; rc = crypto_shash_init(desc); if (rc) { |