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SubjectRe: Can an ahash driver be used through shash API?
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Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2019, 16:04:47 CEST schrieb David Gstir:

Hi David,

> Hi!
>
> I've done some testing with hardware acceleration of hash functions
> and noticed that, when using the synchronous message digest API (shash),
> some drivers are not usable. In my case the CAAM driver for SHA256.
> Using the asynchronous interface (ahash), everything works as expected.
> Looking at the driver source, the CAAM driver only implements the ahash
> interface.
>
> I'm wondering if there a way to use an ahash driver through the shash
> interface?

Short: no.
>
> I've seen that it does actually work the other way around, since
> crypto_init_shash_ops_async() in crypto/shash.c takes care of translating
> calls from ahash to shash and that's how the *-generic drivers are usable
> through the ahash API.

The crypto_alloc_shash will only identify cipher implementations that were
registered with the CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SHASH flag. That flag is set when a cipher
is registered using crypto_register_shash.

Thus, ciphers registered with crypto_register_ahash will not bear this flag
and thus will not be found by the allocation function.

Ciao
Stephan


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