Re: [PATCH] orinoco: Use shash instead of ahash for MIC calculations

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 02:54:35 EST


On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> +int orinoco_mic(struct crypto_shash *tfm_michael, u8 *key,
> u8 *da, u8 *sa, u8 priority,
> u8 *data, size_t data_len, u8 *mic)
> {
> - AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK(req, tfm_michael);
> - struct scatterlist sg[2];
> + SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(desc, tfm_michael);
> u8 hdr[ETH_HLEN + 2]; /* size of header + padding */
> int err;
>
> @@ -67,18 +66,27 @@ int orinoco_mic(struct crypto_ahash *tfm_michael, u8 *key,
> hdr[ETH_ALEN * 2 + 2] = 0;
> hdr[ETH_ALEN * 2 + 3] = 0;
>
> - /* Use scatter gather to MIC header and data in one go */
> - sg_init_table(sg, 2);
> - sg_set_buf(&sg[0], hdr, sizeof(hdr));
> - sg_set_buf(&sg[1], data, data_len);
> + desc->tfm = tfm_michael;
> + desc->flags = 0;
>
> - if (crypto_ahash_setkey(tfm_michael, key, MIC_KEYLEN))
> - return -1;
> + err = crypto_shash_setkey(tfm_michael, key, MIC_KEYLEN);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = crypto_shash_init(desc);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = crypto_shash_update(desc, hdr, sizeof(hdr));
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = crypto_shash_update(desc, data, data_len);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = crypto_shash_final(desc, mic);
> + shash_desc_zero(desc);
>
> - ahash_request_set_tfm(req, tfm_michael);
> - ahash_request_set_callback(req, 0, NULL, NULL);
> - ahash_request_set_crypt(req, sg, mic, data_len + sizeof(hdr));
> - err = crypto_ahash_digest(req);
> - ahash_request_zero(req);
> return err;

It's probably a good idea to always do shash_desc_zero(), even when something
above it fails. Otherwise this looks fine. Thanks for sending these patches!

Eric