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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Biggers 2019-04-14 17:37:09 -07:00 • committed by Herbert Xu
commit 877b5691f2
66 changed files with 8 additions and 113 deletions

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@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ static int ecryptfs_hash_digest(struct crypto_shash *tfm,
int err;
desc->tfm = tfm;
desc->flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;
err = crypto_shash_digest(desc, src, len, dst);
shash_desc_zero(desc);
return err;

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@ -769,7 +769,6 @@ ecryptfs_write_tag_70_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes,
}
s->hash_desc->tfm = s->hash_tfm;
s->hash_desc->flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;
rc = crypto_shash_digest(s->hash_desc,
(u8 *)s->auth_tok->token.password.session_key_encryption_key,