[PATCH] Removing CTR mode from NX driver

From: Leonidas S. Barbosa
Date: Sat Aug 08 2015 - 17:31:13 EST


CTR hardware implementation does not match with kernel spec causing a counter bug
where just low 8 bytes are used for counter, when should be all 16bytes.

Since we already have other counter modes working according with specs
not worth to keep CTR itself on NX.

Signed-off-by: Leonidas S. Barbosa <leosilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/nx/nx-aes-ctr.c | 21 ---------------------
drivers/crypto/nx/nx.c | 9 +--------
drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h | 1 -
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-aes-ctr.c b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-aes-ctr.c
index dd7e9f3..898c0a2 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-aes-ctr.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-aes-ctr.c
@@ -144,27 +144,6 @@ static int ctr3686_aes_nx_crypt(struct blkcipher_desc *desc,
return ctr_aes_nx_crypt(desc, dst, src, nbytes);
}

-struct crypto_alg nx_ctr_aes_alg = {
- .cra_name = "ctr(aes)",
- .cra_driver_name = "ctr-aes-nx",
- .cra_priority = 300,
- .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER,
- .cra_blocksize = 1,
- .cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct nx_crypto_ctx),
- .cra_type = &crypto_blkcipher_type,
- .cra_module = THIS_MODULE,
- .cra_init = nx_crypto_ctx_aes_ctr_init,
- .cra_exit = nx_crypto_ctx_exit,
- .cra_blkcipher = {
- .min_keysize = AES_MIN_KEY_SIZE,
- .max_keysize = AES_MAX_KEY_SIZE,
- .ivsize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE,
- .setkey = ctr_aes_nx_set_key,
- .encrypt = ctr_aes_nx_crypt,
- .decrypt = ctr_aes_nx_crypt,
- }
-};
-
struct crypto_alg nx_ctr3686_aes_alg = {
.cra_name = "rfc3686(ctr(aes))",
.cra_driver_name = "rfc3686-ctr-aes-nx",
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.c b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.c
index 4369713..42fd3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.c
@@ -596,13 +596,9 @@ static int nx_register_algs(void)
if (rc)
goto out_unreg_ecb;

- rc = nx_register_alg(&nx_ctr_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
- if (rc)
- goto out_unreg_cbc;
-
rc = nx_register_alg(&nx_ctr3686_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
if (rc)
- goto out_unreg_ctr;
+ goto out_unreg_cbc;

rc = nx_register_aead(&nx_gcm_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_GCM);
if (rc)
@@ -653,8 +649,6 @@ out_unreg_gcm:
nx_unregister_aead(&nx_gcm_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_GCM);
out_unreg_ctr3686:
nx_unregister_alg(&nx_ctr3686_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
-out_unreg_ctr:
- nx_unregister_alg(&nx_ctr_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
out_unreg_cbc:
nx_unregister_alg(&nx_cbc_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CBC);
out_unreg_ecb:
@@ -822,7 +816,6 @@ static int nx_remove(struct vio_dev *viodev)
NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_GCM);
nx_unregister_alg(&nx_ctr3686_aes_alg,
NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
- nx_unregister_alg(&nx_ctr_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CTR);
nx_unregister_alg(&nx_cbc_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_CBC);
nx_unregister_alg(&nx_ecb_aes_alg, NX_FC_AES, NX_MODE_AES_ECB);
}
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
index cdff03a..b8fc1ad 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ extern struct crypto_alg nx_cbc_aes_alg;
extern struct crypto_alg nx_ecb_aes_alg;
extern struct aead_alg nx_gcm_aes_alg;
extern struct aead_alg nx_gcm4106_aes_alg;
-extern struct crypto_alg nx_ctr_aes_alg;
extern struct crypto_alg nx_ctr3686_aes_alg;
extern struct crypto_alg nx_ccm_aes_alg;
extern struct crypto_alg nx_ccm4309_aes_alg;
--
1.8.3.1

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