From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fsverity: relax build time dependency on CRYPTO_SHA256
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:05:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH3+pEyzcON8eEKJ@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210416160642.85387-3-ardb@kernel.org>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 06:06:42PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 denotes the generic C implementation of the SHA-256
> shash algorithm, which is selected as the default crypto shash provider
> for fsverity. However, fsverity has no strict link time dependency, and
> the same shash could be exposed by an optimized implementation, and arm64
> has a number of those (scalar, NEON-based and one based on special crypto
> instructions). In such cases, it makes little sense to require that the
> generic C implementation is incorporated as well, given that it will never
> be called.
>
> To address this, relax the 'select' clause to 'imply' so that the generic
> driver can be omitted from the build if desired.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
> fs/verity/Kconfig | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/verity/Kconfig b/fs/verity/Kconfig
> index 88fb25119899..24d1b54de807 100644
> --- a/fs/verity/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/verity/Kconfig
> @@ -3,9 +3,13 @@
> config FS_VERITY
> bool "FS Verity (read-only file-based authenticity protection)"
> select CRYPTO
> - # SHA-256 is selected as it's intended to be the default hash algorithm.
> + # SHA-256 is implied as it's intended to be the default hash algorithm.
> # To avoid bloat, other wanted algorithms must be selected explicitly.
> - select CRYPTO_SHA256
> + # Note that CRYPTO_SHA256 denotes the generic C implementation, but
> + # some architectures provided optimized implementations of the same
> + # algorithm that may be used instead. In this case, CRYPTO_SHA256 may
> + # be omitted even if SHA-256 is being used.
> + imply CRYPTO_SHA256
> help
> This option enables fs-verity. fs-verity is the dm-verity
> mechanism implemented at the file level. On supported
Looks fine,
Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
- Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 16:06 [PATCH 0/2] relax crypto Kconfig dependencies for fsverity/fscrypt Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-16 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] fscrypt: relax Kconfig dependencies for crypto API algorithms Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-19 22:03 ` Eric Biggers
2021-04-16 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] fsverity: relax build time dependency on CRYPTO_SHA256 Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-19 22:05 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
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