Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: use library APIs for ChaCha20 and Poly1305

[Eric Biggers]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:01:07AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 09:33:33PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Just use the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 libraries instead of the clunky
> > crypto API.  This is much simpler.  It is also slightly faster, since
> > the libraries provide more direct access to the same
> > architecture-optimized ChaCha20 and Poly1305 code.
> > 
> > I've tested that existing encrypted bcachefs filesystems can be continue
> > to be accessed with this patch applied.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Fantastic!
> 
> Applied, and this should go into 6.15 - this should get the strange bugs
> in the poly1305 path that I wasn't able to reproduce off the dashboard
> (and if they're still there, they'll be much easier to debug.)

Thanks!

If you're referring to
https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHOo4gLWAbArwg+w+AqqkxGmOFX6cm8Tvy85tb4igN6V7Z9BZQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/,
I think bcachefs passed invalid memory to Poly1305 as a result of mounting a
fuzzed filesystem image.  So it should be unaffected by this patch.

- Eric