NOTE: this is a follow-up to '[RFC PATCH 00/10] crypto: x86 - remove XTS and CTR glue helper code' [0].
After applying my performance fixes for AES-NI in XTS mode, the only remaining users of the x86 glue helper module are the niche algorithms camellia, cast5/6, serpent and twofish. It is not clear from the history why all these different versions of these algorithms in XTS and CTR modes were added in the first place: the only in-kernel references that seem to exist are to cbc(serpent), cbc(camellia) and cbc(twofish) in the IPsec stack. The XTS spec only mentions AES, and CTR modes don't seem to be widely used either. Since the glue helper code relies heavily on indirect calls for small chunks of in/output, it needs some work to recover from the performance hit caused by the retpoline changes. However, it makes sense to only expend the effort for algorithms that are being used in the first place, and this does not seem to be the case for XTS and CTR. CTR mode can simply be removed: it is not used in the kernel, and it is highly unlikely that it is being relied upon via algif_skcipher. And even if it was, the generic CTR mode driver can still provide the CTR transforms if necessary. While at it, accelerated implementations of DES and Blowfish in CTR mode are removed as well, for the same reasons. XTS mode may actually be in use by dm-crypt users *, so we cannot simply drop this code entirely. However, as it turns out, the XTS template wrapped around the ECB mode skciphers perform roughly on par, and so there is no need to retain all the complicated XTS helper logic. Users of dm-crypt that are relying on xts(camellia) or xts(serpent) in the field should not be impacted by these changes at all. ECB and CBC are retained, but the glue helper indirection is replaced with a set of preprocessor macros which can be used to instantiate the same logic flow, but without relying on indirect calls into the glue helper module. Please refer to patch #14 for more background. * Milan points out that Serpent, Camellia and Twofish in XTS mode are used by TrueCrypt/Veracrypt, which means that dm-crypt should retain support for these algorithms as well. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20201223223841.11311-1-a...@kernel.org/ Changes since RFC: - add Eric's ack to the initial XTS and CTR patches - add patches to convert ECB and CBC modes - add patches to remove DES and Blowfish in CTR mode Cc: Megha Dey <megha....@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Milan Broz <gmazyl...@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snit...@redhat.com> Ard Biesheuvel (21): crypto: x86/camellia - switch to XTS template crypto: x86/cast6 - switch to XTS template crypto: x86/serpent- switch to XTS template crypto: x86/twofish - switch to XTS template crypto: x86/glue-helper - drop XTS helper routines crypto: x86/camellia - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/serpent - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/cast5 - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/cast6 - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/twofish - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/glue-helper - drop CTR helper routines crypto: x86/des - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86/blowfish - drop CTR mode implementation crypto: x86 - add some helper macros for ECB and CBC modes crypto: x86/camellia - drop dependency on glue helper crypto: x86/serpent - drop dependency on glue helper crypto: x86/cast5 - drop dependency on glue helper crypto: x86/cast6 - drop dependency on glue helper crypto: x86/twofish - drop dependency on glue helper crypto: x86 - remove glue helper module crypto: x86 - use local headers for x86 specific shared declarations arch/x86/crypto/Makefile | 2 - arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c | 107 ----- arch/x86/crypto/camellia-aesni-avx-asm_64.S | 298 -------------- arch/x86/crypto/camellia-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S | 351 ---------------- arch/x86/{include/asm => }/crypto/camellia.h | 24 -- arch/x86/crypto/camellia_aesni_avx2_glue.c | 198 ++------- arch/x86/crypto/camellia_aesni_avx_glue.c | 216 +--------- arch/x86/crypto/camellia_glue.c | 131 +----- arch/x86/crypto/cast5_avx_glue.c | 287 +------------ arch/x86/crypto/cast6-avx-x86_64-asm_64.S | 84 ---- arch/x86/crypto/cast6_avx_glue.c | 207 +--------- arch/x86/crypto/des3_ede_glue.c | 104 ----- arch/x86/crypto/ecb_cbc_helpers.h | 71 ++++ arch/x86/crypto/glue_helper-asm-avx.S | 104 ----- arch/x86/crypto/glue_helper-asm-avx2.S | 136 ------- arch/x86/crypto/glue_helper.c | 381 ------------------ arch/x86/crypto/serpent-avx-x86_64-asm_64.S | 68 ---- arch/x86/crypto/serpent-avx.h | 21 + arch/x86/crypto/serpent-avx2-asm_64.S | 87 ---- .../{include/asm => }/crypto/serpent-sse2.h | 0 arch/x86/crypto/serpent_avx2_glue.c | 185 +-------- arch/x86/crypto/serpent_avx_glue.c | 215 +--------- arch/x86/crypto/serpent_sse2_glue.c | 150 ++----- arch/x86/crypto/twofish-avx-x86_64-asm_64.S | 80 ---- arch/x86/{include/asm => }/crypto/twofish.h | 4 - arch/x86/crypto/twofish_avx_glue.c | 211 +--------- arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c | 160 ++------ arch/x86/include/asm/crypto/glue_helper.h | 118 ------ arch/x86/include/asm/crypto/serpent-avx.h | 42 -- crypto/Kconfig | 30 +- crypto/skcipher.c | 6 - include/crypto/internal/skcipher.h | 1 - 32 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 3765 deletions(-) rename arch/x86/{include/asm => }/crypto/camellia.h (69%) create mode 100644 arch/x86/crypto/ecb_cbc_helpers.h delete mode 100644 arch/x86/crypto/glue_helper.c create mode 100644 arch/x86/crypto/serpent-avx.h rename arch/x86/{include/asm => }/crypto/serpent-sse2.h (100%) rename arch/x86/{include/asm => }/crypto/twofish.h (80%) delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/crypto/glue_helper.h delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/crypto/serpent-avx.h -- 2.17.1
