Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] RISC-V: crypto: add accelerated GCM GHASH implementation

[Heiko Stübner]

Hi Eric,

Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2023, 20:37:16 CEST schrieb Eric Biggers:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 04:06:42PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/crypto/ghash-riscv64-zbc.pl b/arch/riscv/crypto/ghash-riscv64-zbc.pl
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..691231ffa11c
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/crypto/ghash-riscv64-zbc.pl
> > @@ -0,0 +1,400 @@
> > +#! /usr/bin/env perl
> > +# Copyright 2022 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
> > +#
> > +# Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
> > +# this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
> > +# in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
> > +# https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
> 
> My understanding is that code that is licensed under (only) the Apache License
> 2.0 cannot be included in GPLv2 programs such as the Linux kernel.

Thanks a lot for pointing out that possible licensing issue.
It seems I'm not touching enough non-GPL code most days to keep that
in the front of my mind :-) .


> Is this code written by Andy Polyakov?  What's been done in the past for his
> code is that he re-releases it in CRYPTOGAMS at
> https://github.com/dot-asm/cryptogams with a Linux kernel compatible license.
> The Linux kernel then takes the code from there instead of from OpenSSL.

The git log for the original openssl ".pl" thankfully only contains
@vrull.eu addresses, so getting this in a compatible license shouldn't be
overly hard - I hope.


Heiko