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Reimplement TCP-AO using crypto library
This series can also be retrieved from:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git tcp-ao-v2
This series is targeting net-next for 7.2. To make this series
self-contained in the networking code, I dropped the patches that remove
support for transformation cloning from the crypto API, which is a
further negative 275-line cleanup and optimization this series enables.
That will be done as a follow-up, either through the crypto tree for
7.3, or still through net-next for 7.2 at maintainer preference.
This series refactors the TCP-AO (TCP Authentication Option) code to do
MAC and KDF computations using lib/crypto/ instead of crypto_ahash.
This greatly simplifies the code and makes it much more efficient. The
entire tcp_sigpool mechanism becomes unnecessary and is removed, as the
problems it was designed to solve don't exist with the library APIs.
The crypto API's support for crypto transformation cloning also becomes
unnecessary and will be removed in follow-up patches. Note that as part
of that, we'll be able to roll back the addition of the reference count
to crypto_tfm, which had regressed performance for all crypto API users.
To make this simplification and optimization possible, this series also
updates the TCP-AO code to support a specific set of algorithms, rather
than arbitrary algorithms that don't make sense and are very likely not
being used, e.g. CRC-32 and HMAC-MD5.
Specifically, this series retains the support for AES-128-CMAC,
HMAC-SHA1, and HMAC-SHA256. AES-128-CMAC and HMAC-SHA1 are the only
algorithms that are actually standardized for use in TCP-AO, while
HMAC-SHA256 makes sense to continue supporting as a Linux extension. Of
course, other algorithms can still be (re-)added later if ever needed.
It's worth noting that TCP-AO MACs are limited to 20 bytes by the TCP
options space, which limits the benefit of further algorithm upgrades.
This series passes the tcp_ao selftests
(sudo make -C tools/testing/selftests/net/tcp_ao/ run_tests).
To get a sense for how much more efficient this makes the TCP-AO code,
here's a microbenchmark for tcp_ao_hash_skb() with skb->len == 128:
Algorithm Avg cycles (before) Avg cycles (after)
--------- ------------------- ------------------
HMAC-SHA1 3319 1256
HMAC-SHA256 3311 1344
AES-128-CMAC 2720 1107
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427172727.9310-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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