[PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

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[PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-05-14 05:19:22

From: Eric Biggers <redacted>

As discussed in the thread containing
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250510053308.GB505731@sol/, the
Power10-optimized Poly1305 code is currently not safe to call in softirq
context.  Disable it for now.  It can be re-enabled once it is fixed.

Fixes: ba8f8624fde2 ("crypto: poly1305-p10 - Glue code for optmized Poly1305 implementation for ppc64le")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig
index ffa541ad6d5da..3f9e1bbd9905b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ config CRYPTO_CHACHA20_P10
 	select CRYPTO_ARCH_HAVE_LIB_CHACHA
 
 config CRYPTO_POLY1305_P10
 	tristate
 	depends on PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN && VSX
+	depends on BROKEN # Needs to be fixed to work in softirq context
 	default CRYPTO_LIB_POLY1305
 	select CRYPTO_ARCH_HAVE_LIB_POLY1305
 	select CRYPTO_LIB_POLY1305_GENERIC
 
 config CRYPTO_SHA256_PPC_SPE
base-commit: 57999ed153ed7e651afecbabe0e998e75cf2d798
-- 
2.49.0

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2025-05-14 09:42:02

Eric Biggers [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Eric Biggers <redacted>

As discussed in the thread containing
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250510053308.GB505731@sol/, the
Power10-optimized Poly1305 code is currently not safe to call in softirq
context.  Disable it for now.  It can be re-enabled once it is fixed.

Fixes: ba8f8624fde2 ("crypto: poly1305-p10 - Glue code for optmized Poly1305 implementation for ppc64le")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
---
arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
I thought this fix should be enough, no?

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-crypto/patch/aB8Yy0JGvoErc0ns@gondor.apana.org.au/

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-05-14 16:29:39

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:41:39PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
Eric Biggers [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
From: Eric Biggers <redacted>

As discussed in the thread containing
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250510053308.GB505731@sol/, the
Power10-optimized Poly1305 code is currently not safe to call in softirq
context.  Disable it for now.  It can be re-enabled once it is fixed.

Fixes: ba8f8624fde2 ("crypto: poly1305-p10 - Glue code for optmized Poly1305 implementation for ppc64le")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
---
arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
I thought this fix should be enough, no?

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-crypto/patch/aB8Yy0JGvoErc0ns@gondor.apana.org.au/
I didn't notice that.  Probably, though I don't have time to review this subtle
Poly1305 code.  Especially with all the weird unions in the code.  Would be
great if the PowerPC folks would take a look.

- Eric

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2025-05-15 02:10:55

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:29:33AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
I didn't notice that.  Probably, though I don't have time to review this subtle
Poly1305 code.  Especially with all the weird unions in the code.  Would be
great if the PowerPC folks would take a look.
Of course more reviews would be great and I think they're all on
the cc list.

I did test this by manually forcing the conversion, which is how
I discovered that powerpc wasn't even using donna64.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2025-05-19 14:20:35


Le 15/05/2025 à 04:10, Herbert Xu a écrit :
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:29:33AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
quoted
I didn't notice that.  Probably, though I don't have time to review this subtle
Poly1305 code.  Especially with all the weird unions in the code.  Would be
great if the PowerPC folks would take a look.
Of course more reviews would be great and I think they're all on
the cc list.

I did test this by manually forcing the conversion, which is how
I discovered that powerpc wasn't even using donna64.
As far as I can see related patches found in linux-next tree were not 
sent to linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org.

Could you resend them, and split out the introduction of 
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 from other parts of patch "crypto: 
powerpc/poly1305 - Add SIMD fallback" and add the lib/tishift.S in the 
patch which adds CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 ?

Thanks
Christophe

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2025-05-20 02:33:16

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 03:55:16PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
As far as I can see related patches found in linux-next tree were not sent
to linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org.
I just checked and it was definitely sent to linuxppc-dev:

Cc: oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev, Linux Crypto Mailing List <redacted>, Venkat Rao Bagalkote <redacted>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>, Stephen Rothwell <redacted>, Danny Tsen <redacted>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Could you resend them, and split out the introduction of
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 from other parts of patch "crypto:
powerpc/poly1305 - Add SIMD fallback" and add the lib/tishift.S in the patch
which adds CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 ?
I'll just revert them and mark powerpc/poly1305 as broken.  You
guys can sort it out later.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2025-05-20 02:41:52

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:18:47AM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
From: Eric Biggers <redacted>

As discussed in the thread containing
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250510053308.GB505731@sol/, the
Power10-optimized Poly1305 code is currently not safe to call in softirq
context.  Disable it for now.  It can be re-enabled once it is fixed.

Fixes: ba8f8624fde2 ("crypto: poly1305-p10 - Glue code for optmized Poly1305 implementation for ppc64le")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/crypto/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Patch applied.  Thanks.
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2025-05-20 05:50:33


Le 20/05/2025 à 04:32, Herbert Xu a écrit :
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 03:55:16PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
quoted
As far as I can see related patches found in linux-next tree were not sent
to linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org.
I just checked and it was definitely sent to linuxppc-dev:
Oops sorry, my mistake.

I see them in patchwork, they still have status 'New'.
Cc: oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev, Linux Crypto Mailing List <redacted>, Venkat Rao Bagalkote <redacted>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>, Stephen Rothwell <redacted>, Danny Tsen <redacted>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
quoted
Could you resend them, and split out the introduction of
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 from other parts of patch "crypto:
powerpc/poly1305 - Add SIMD fallback" and add the lib/tishift.S in the patch
which adds CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 ?
I'll just revert them and mark powerpc/poly1305 as broken.  You
guys can sort it out later.
Fine, lets do that and make sure all necessary bits are there when 
enabling CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128

Thanks
Christophe
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