crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags

The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.

With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP.  These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping.  For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API.  However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.

Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk.  It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.

Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Biggers
2019-04-14 17:37:09 -07:00
committed by Herbert Xu
vanhempi 75f2222832
commit 877b5691f2
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@@ -2140,7 +2140,6 @@ static int ahash_init(struct ahash_request *req)
goto err_hash;
}
ctx->shash->tfm = hash;
ctx->shash->flags = 0;
/* Set the key using data we already have from setkey */
if (ctx->authkeylen > 0) {

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@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ int do_shash(unsigned char *name, unsigned char *result,
goto do_shash_err;
}
sdesc->shash.tfm = hash;
sdesc->shash.flags = 0x0;
if (key_len > 0) {
rc = crypto_shash_setkey(hash, key, key_len);