Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: testmgr - use generic algs making test vecs

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:48:33PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Use generic algs to produce inauthentic AEAD messages,
> otherwise we are running the risk of using an untested
> code to produce the test messages.
> 
> As this code is only used in developer only extended tests
> any cycles/runtime costs are negligible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

It's intentional to use the same implementation to generate the inauthentic AEAD
messages, because it allows the inauthentic AEAD input tests to run even if the
generic implementation is unavailable.

> @@ -2337,8 +2338,42 @@ static int test_aead_inauthentic_inputs(struct aead_extra_tests_ctx *ctx)
>  {
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	int err;
> +	struct crypto_aead *tfm = ctx->tfm;
> +	const char *algname = crypto_aead_alg(tfm)->base.cra_name;
> +	const char *driver = ctx->driver;
> +	const char *generic_driver = ctx->test_desc->generic_driver;
> +	char _generic_driver[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME];
> +	struct crypto_aead *generic_tfm = NULL;
> +	struct aead_request *generic_req = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!generic_driver) {
> +		err = build_generic_driver_name(algname, _generic_driver);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
> +		generic_driver = _generic_driver;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!strcmp(generic_driver, driver) == 0) {
> +		/* Already the generic impl? */
> +
> +		generic_tfm = crypto_alloc_aead(generic_driver, 0, 0);

I think you meant the condition to be 'if (strcmp(generic_driver, driver) != 0)'
and for the comment to be "Not already the generic impl?".

> +		if (IS_ERR(generic_tfm)) {
> +			err = PTR_ERR(generic_tfm);
> +			pr_err("alg: aead: error allocating %s (generic impl of %s): %d\n",
> +			generic_driver, algname, err);
> +			return err;
> +		}

This means the test won't run if the generic implementation is unavailable.
Is there any particular reason to impose that requirement?

You mentioned a concern about the implementation being "untested", but it
actually already passed test_aead() before getting to test_aead_extra().

We could also just move test_aead_inauthentic_inputs() to below
test_aead_vs_generic_impl() so that it runs last.

- Eric