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Several hardware related cipher implementations are implemented as follows: a "helper" cipher implementation is registered with the kernel crypto API. Such helper ciphers are never intended to be called by normal users. In some cases, calling them via the normal crypto API may even cause failures including kernel crashes. In a normal case, the "wrapping" ciphers that use the helpers ensure that these helpers are invoked such that they cannot cause any calamity. Considering the AF_ALG user space interface, unprivileged users can call all ciphers registered with the crypto API, including these helper ciphers that are not intended to be called directly. That means, with AF_ALG user space may invoke these helper ciphers and may cause undefined states or side effects. To avoid any potential side effects with such helpers, the patch prevents the helpers to be called directly. A new cipher type flag is added: CRYPTO_ALG_INTERNAL. This flag shall be used to mark helper ciphers. These ciphers can only be used if the caller invoke the cipher with CRYPTO_ALG_INTERNAL in the type and mask field. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
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