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Now that all users of the deprecated ablkcipher interface have been moved to the skcipher interface, ablkcipher is no longer used and can be removed. Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Crypto Engine
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=============
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Overview
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--------
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The crypto engine (CE) API is a crypto queue manager.
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Requirement
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-----------
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You must put, at the start of your transform context your_tfm_ctx, the structure
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crypto_engine:
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::
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struct your_tfm_ctx {
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struct crypto_engine engine;
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...
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};
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The crypto engine only manages asynchronous requests in the form of
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crypto_async_request. It cannot know the underlying request type and thus only
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has access to the transform structure. It is not possible to access the context
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using container_of. In addition, the engine knows nothing about your
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structure "``struct your_tfm_ctx``". The engine assumes (requires) the placement
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of the known member ``struct crypto_engine`` at the beginning.
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Order of operations
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-------------------
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You are required to obtain a struct crypto_engine via ``crypto_engine_alloc_init()``.
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Start it via ``crypto_engine_start()``. When finished with your work, shut down the
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engine using ``crypto_engine_stop()`` and destroy the engine with
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``crypto_engine_exit()``.
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Before transferring any request, you have to fill the context enginectx by
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providing functions for the following:
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* ``prepare_crypt_hardware``: Called once before any prepare functions are
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called.
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* ``unprepare_crypt_hardware``: Called once after all unprepare functions have
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been called.
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* ``prepare_cipher_request``/``prepare_hash_request``: Called before each
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corresponding request is performed. If some processing or other preparatory
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work is required, do it here.
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* ``unprepare_cipher_request``/``unprepare_hash_request``: Called after each
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request is handled. Clean up / undo what was done in the prepare function.
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* ``cipher_one_request``/``hash_one_request``: Handle the current request by
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performing the operation.
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Note that these functions access the crypto_async_request structure
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associated with the received request. You are able to retrieve the original
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request by using:
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::
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container_of(areq, struct yourrequesttype_request, base);
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When your driver receives a crypto_request, you must to transfer it to
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the crypto engine via one of:
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* crypto_transfer_aead_request_to_engine()
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* crypto_transfer_akcipher_request_to_engine()
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* crypto_transfer_hash_request_to_engine()
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* crypto_transfer_skcipher_request_to_engine()
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At the end of the request process, a call to one of the following functions is needed:
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* crypto_finalize_aead_request()
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* crypto_finalize_akcipher_request()
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* crypto_finalize_hash_request()
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* crypto_finalize_skcipher_request()
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