[PATCH RFC] crypto/hkdf: Fix salt length short issue in FIPS mode
From: Li Tian
Date: Wed Nov 26 2025 - 08:42:35 EST
Under FIPS mode, the hkdf test fails because salt is required
to be at least 32 bytes long. Pad salt with 0's.
Signed-off-by: Li Tian <litian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/hkdf.c | 11 ++++++++++-
fs/crypto/hkdf.c | 13 -------------
include/crypto/hkdf.h | 13 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/hkdf.c b/crypto/hkdf.c
index 82d1b32ca6ce..9af0ef4dfb35 100644
--- a/crypto/hkdf.c
+++ b/crypto/hkdf.c
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ int hkdf_extract(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm, const u8 *ikm,
u8 *prk)
{
int err;
+ u8 tmp_salt[HKDF_HASHLEN];
+
+ if (saltlen < HKDF_HASHLEN) {
+ /* Copy salt and pad with zeros to HashLen */
+ memcpy(tmp_salt, salt, saltlen);
+ memset(tmp_salt + saltlen, 0, HKDF_HASHLEN - saltlen);
+ salt = tmp_salt;
+ saltlen = HKDF_HASHLEN;
+ }
err = crypto_shash_setkey(hmac_tfm, salt, saltlen);
if (!err)
@@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ struct hkdf_testvec {
*/
static const struct hkdf_testvec hkdf_sha256_tv[] = {
{
- .test = "basic hdkf test",
+ .test = "basic hkdf test",
.ikm = "\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b"
"\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b\x0b",
.ikm_size = 22,
diff --git a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
index 706f56d0076e..5e4844c1d3d7 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/hkdf.c
@@ -13,19 +13,6 @@
#include "fscrypt_private.h"
-/*
- * HKDF supports any unkeyed cryptographic hash algorithm, but fscrypt uses
- * SHA-512 because it is well-established, secure, and reasonably efficient.
- *
- * HKDF-SHA256 was also considered, as its 256-bit security strength would be
- * sufficient here. A 512-bit security strength is "nice to have", though.
- * Also, on 64-bit CPUs, SHA-512 is usually just as fast as SHA-256. In the
- * common case of deriving an AES-256-XTS key (512 bits), that can result in
- * HKDF-SHA512 being much faster than HKDF-SHA256, as the longer digest size of
- * SHA-512 causes HKDF-Expand to only need to do one iteration rather than two.
- */
-#define HKDF_HASHLEN SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE
-
/*
* HKDF consists of two steps:
*
diff --git a/include/crypto/hkdf.h b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
index 6a9678f508f5..7ef55ce875e2 100644
--- a/include/crypto/hkdf.h
+++ b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@
#include <crypto/hash.h>
+/*
+ * HKDF supports any unkeyed cryptographic hash algorithm, but fscrypt uses
+ * SHA-512 because it is well-established, secure, and reasonably efficient.
+ *
+ * HKDF-SHA256 was also considered, as its 256-bit security strength would be
+ * sufficient here. A 512-bit security strength is "nice to have", though.
+ * Also, on 64-bit CPUs, SHA-512 is usually just as fast as SHA-256. In the
+ * common case of deriving an AES-256-XTS key (512 bits), that can result in
+ * HKDF-SHA512 being much faster than HKDF-SHA256, as the longer digest size of
+ * SHA-512 causes HKDF-Expand to only need to do one iteration rather than two.
+ */
+#define HKDF_HASHLEN SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE
+
int hkdf_extract(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm, const u8 *ikm,
unsigned int ikmlen, const u8 *salt, unsigned int saltlen,
u8 *prk);
--
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