Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm64: add Crypto Extensions based synchronous coreAES cipher

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jan 30 2014 - 13:57:39 EST


Hi Ard,

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:50:46PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..b5a5d5d6e4b8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
> +/*
> + * linux/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2013 Linaro Ltd <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +
> +#include <asm/neon.h>
> +#include <crypto/aes.h>
> +#include <linux/crypto.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/cpufeature.h>
> +
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Synchronous AES cipher using ARMv8 Crypto Extensions");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +
> +static void aes_cipher_encrypt(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, u8 dst[], u8 const src[])
> +{
> + struct crypto_aes_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
> + u32 rounds = 6 + ctx->key_length / 4;

Can you document these constants please?

> +
> + kernel_neon_begin();
> +
> + __asm__(" ld1 {v0.16b}, [%[in]] ;"
> + " ld1 {v1.16b}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
> + "0: aese v0.16b, v1.16b ;"
> + " subs %[rounds], %[rounds], #1 ;"
> + " ld1 {v1.16b}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
> + " beq 1f ;"
> + " aesmc v0.16b, v0.16b ;"
> + " b 0b ;"
> + "1: eor v0.16b, v0.16b, v1.16b ;"
> + " st1 {v0.16b}, [%[out]] ;"
> + : :
> + [out] "r"(dst),
> + [in] "r"(src),
> + [rounds] "r"(rounds),
> + [key] "r"(ctx->key_enc)
> + : "cc");

You probably need a memory output to stop this being re-ordered by the
compiler. Can GCC not generate the addressing modes you need directly,
allowing you to avoid moving everything into registers?


> + kernel_neon_end();
> +}
> +
> +static void aes_cipher_decrypt(struct crypto_tfm *tfm, u8 dst[], u8 const src[])
> +{
> + struct crypto_aes_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
> + u32 rounds = 6 + ctx->key_length / 4;
> +
> + kernel_neon_begin();
> +
> + __asm__(" ld1 {v0.16b}, [%[in]] ;"
> + " ld1 {v1.16b}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
> + "0: aesd v0.16b, v1.16b ;"
> + " ld1 {v1.16b}, [%[key]], #16 ;"
> + " subs %[rounds], %[rounds], #1 ;"
> + " beq 1f ;"
> + " aesimc v0.16b, v0.16b ;"
> + " b 0b ;"
> + "1: eor v0.16b, v0.16b, v1.16b ;"
> + " st1 {v0.16b}, [%[out]] ;"
> + : :
> + [out] "r"(dst),
> + [in] "r"(src),
> + [rounds] "r"(rounds),
> + [key] "r"(ctx->key_dec)
> + : "cc");

Same comments here.

FWIW: I spoke to the guy at ARM who designed the crypto instructions and he
reckons your code works :)

Cheers,

Will "got a B in maths" Deacon
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