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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:17:13 +0100
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
Scott Bauer <sbauer@....utah.edu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>, "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function
Hey Eric,
Lots of good points; thanks for the review. Responses are inline below.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com> wrote:
> Maybe add to the help text for CONFIG_TEST_HASH that it now tests siphash too?
Good call. Will do.
> This assumes the key and message buffers are aligned to __alignof__(u64).
> Unless that's going to be a clearly documented requirement for callers, you
> should use get_unaligned_le64() instead. And you can pass a 'u8 *' directly to
> get_unaligned_le64(), no need for a helper function.
I had thought about that briefly, but just sort of figured most people
were passing in aligned variables... but that's a pretty bad
assumption to make especially for 64-bit alignment. I'll switch to
using the get_unaligned functions.
[As a side note, I wonder if crypto/chacha20_generic.c should be using
the unaligned functions instead too, at least for the iv reading...]
> It makes sense for this to return a u64, but that means the cpu_to_le64() is
> wrong, since u64 indicates CPU endianness. It should just return 'b'.
At first I was very opposed to making this change, since by returning
a value with an explicit byte order, you can cast to u8 and have
uniform indexed byte access across platforms. But of course this
doesn't make any sense, since it's returning a u64, and it makes all
other bitwise operations non-uniform anyway. I checked with JP
(co-creator of siphash, CC'd) and he confirmed your suspicion that it
was just to make the test vector comparison easier and for some
byte-wise uniformity, but that it's not strictly necessary. So, I've
removed that last cpu_to_le64, and I've also refactored those test
vectors to be written as ULL literals, so that a simple == integer
comparison will work across platforms.
> Can you mention in a comment where the test vectors came from?
Sure, will do.
> If you make the output really be CPU-endian like I'm suggesting then this will
> need to be something like:
>
> if (out != get_unaligned_le64(test_vectors[i])) {
>
> Or else make the test vectors be an array of u64.
Yep, I wound up doing that.
Thanks Eric! Will submit a v3 soon if nobody else has comments.
Jason
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