From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] secure_seq: use siphash24 instead of md5_transform
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:53:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9pEM=cDC5S=j1BU2oCF8-WdnbRfiVojcet4rXcRLcpJRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161214035927.30004-3-Jason@zx2c4.com>
Hi David,
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:51 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> From: Jason A. Donenfeld
>> Sent: 14 December 2016 00:17
>> This gives a clear speed and security improvement. Rather than manually
>> filling MD5 buffers, we simply create a layout by a simple anonymous
>> struct, for which gcc generates rather efficient code.
> ...
>> + const struct {
>> + struct in6_addr saddr;
>> + struct in6_addr daddr;
>> + __be16 sport;
>> + __be16 dport;
>> + } __packed combined = {
>> + .saddr = *(struct in6_addr *)saddr,
>> + .daddr = *(struct in6_addr *)daddr,
>> + .sport = sport,
>> + .dport = dport
>> + };
>
> You need to look at the effect of marking this (and the other)
> structures 'packed' on architectures like sparc64.
In all current uses of __packed in the code, I think the impact is
precisely zero, because all structures have members in descending
order of size, with each member being a perfect multiple of the one
below it. The __packed is therefore just there for safety, in case
somebody comes in and screws everything up by sticking a u8 in
between. In that case, it wouldn't be desirable to hash the structure
padding bits. In the worst case, I don't believe the impact would be
worse than a byte-by-byte memcpy, which is what the old code did. But
anyway, these structures are already naturally packed anyway, so the
present impact is nil.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-14 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-14 3:59 [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 3:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] siphash: add convenience functions for jhash converts Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 3:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] secure_seq: use siphash24 instead of md5_transform Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 12:53 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2016-12-14 13:16 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 13:44 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 14:47 ` David Laight
2016-12-14 17:49 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 17:56 ` David Miller
2016-12-14 18:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 19:22 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 19:38 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 20:27 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 20:12 ` Tom Herbert
2016-12-14 21:01 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 3:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] random: use siphash24 instead of md5 for get_random_int/long Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 11:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 13:10 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 15:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 19:47 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 7:57 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-15 8:15 ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Micay
2016-12-14 12:46 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 22:03 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-14 23:29 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 8:31 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 11:04 ` David Laight
2016-12-15 12:23 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 12:28 ` David Laight
2016-12-15 12:50 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 13:56 ` David Laight
2016-12-15 14:56 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 15:41 ` David Laight
2016-12-15 15:53 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 18:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 20:31 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 20:43 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 21:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-15 21:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 21:17 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 21:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-15 21:11 ` [kernel-hardening] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-14 18:46 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 18:46 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] secure_seq: use siphash24 instead of md5_transform Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 21:44 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-14 18:46 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] random: use siphash24 instead of md5 for get_random_int/long Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 21:56 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-14 21:57 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-15 10:14 ` David Laight
2016-12-15 18:51 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 19:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function Tom Herbert
2016-12-14 19:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 20:55 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 21:35 ` Tom Herbert
2016-12-14 22:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-14 23:14 ` Tom Herbert
2016-12-14 23:17 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-18 0:06 ` Christian Kujau
2016-12-14 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-14 23:34 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-15 10:22 ` David Laight
2016-12-14 21:15 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-14 21:21 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] siphash: add N[qd]word helpers Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] secure_seq: use siphash instead of md5_transform Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] random: use siphash instead of MD5 for get_random_int/long Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 4:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function kbuild test robot
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