NAME
crypto
—
API for cryptographic services in the
kernel
SYNOPSIS
#include
<opencrypto/cryptodev.h>
int32_t
crypto_get_driverid
(device_t,
size_t,
int);
int
crypto_register
(uint32_t,
int,
uint16_t,
uint32_t,
int (*)(void *, uint32_t *,
struct cryptoini *), int
(*)(void *, uint64_t),
int (*)(void *, struct cryptop
*), void *);
int
crypto_kregister
(uint32_t,
int,
uint32_t,
int (*)(void *, struct cryptkop
*), void *);
int
crypto_unregister
(uint32_t,
int);
int
crypto_unregister_all
(uint32_t);
void
crypto_done
(struct
cryptop *);
void
crypto_kdone
(struct
cryptkop *);
int
crypto_find_driver
(const
char *);
int
crypto_newsession
(crypto_session_t
*, struct cryptoini
*, int);
int
crypto_freesession
(crypto_session_t);
int
crypto_dispatch
(struct
cryptop *);
int
crypto_kdispatch
(struct
cryptkop *);
int
crypto_unblock
(uint32_t,
int);
struct cryptop *
crypto_getreq
(int);
void
crypto_freereq
(void);
#define CRYPTO_SYMQ 0x1 #define CRYPTO_ASYMQ 0x2 #define EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN 16 struct cryptoini { int cri_alg; int cri_klen; int cri_mlen; caddr_t cri_key; uint8_t cri_iv[EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN]; struct cryptoini *cri_next; }; struct cryptodesc { int crd_skip; int crd_len; int crd_inject; int crd_flags; struct cryptoini CRD_INI; #define crd_iv CRD_INI.cri_iv #define crd_key CRD_INI.cri_key #define crd_alg CRD_INI.cri_alg #define crd_klen CRD_INI.cri_klen struct cryptodesc *crd_next; }; struct cryptop { TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptop) crp_next; crypto_session_t crp_session; int crp_ilen; int crp_olen; int crp_etype; int crp_flags; caddr_t crp_buf; caddr_t crp_opaque; struct cryptodesc *crp_desc; int (*crp_callback) (struct cryptop *); caddr_t crp_mac; }; struct crparam { caddr_t crp_p; u_int crp_nbits; }; #define CRK_MAXPARAM 8 struct cryptkop { TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptkop) krp_next; u_int krp_op; /* ie. CRK_MOD_EXP or other */ u_int krp_status; /* return status */ u_short krp_iparams; /* # of input parameters */ u_short krp_oparams; /* # of output parameters */ uint32_t krp_hid; struct crparam krp_param[CRK_MAXPARAM]; int (*krp_callback)(struct cryptkop *); };
DESCRIPTION
crypto
is a framework for drivers of cryptographic
hardware to register with the kernel so “consumers” (other
kernel subsystems, and users through the /dev/crypto
device) are able to make use of it. Drivers register with the framework the
algorithms they support, and provide entry points (functions) the framework
may call to establish, use, and tear down sessions. Sessions are used to cache
cryptographic information in a particular driver (or associated hardware), so
initialization is not needed with every request. Consumers of cryptographic
services pass a set of descriptors that instruct the framework (and the
drivers registered with it) of the operations that should be applied on the
data (more than one cryptographic operation can be requested).
Keying operations are supported as well. Unlike the symmetric operators described above, these sessionless commands perform mathematical operations using input and output parameters.
Since the consumers may not be associated with a process, drivers
may not sleep(9). The same holds for the framework. Thus, a callback
mechanism is used to notify a consumer that a request has been completed
(the callback is specified by the consumer on a per-request basis). The
callback is invoked by the framework whether the request was successfully
completed or not. An error indication is provided in the latter case. A
specific error code, EAGAIN
, is used to indicate
that a session handle has changed and that the request may be re-submitted
immediately with the new session. Errors are only returned to the invoking
function if not enough information to call the callback is available
(meaning, there was a fatal error in verifying the arguments). For session
initialization and teardown no callback mechanism is used.
The
crypto_find_driver
()
function may be called to return the specific id of the provided name. If
the specified driver could not be found, the returned id is -1.
The
crypto_newsession
()
routine is called by consumers of cryptographic services (such as the
ipsec(4) stack) that wish to establish a new session with the
framework. The second argument contains all the necessary information for
the driver to establish the session. The third argument is either a specific
driver id, or one or both of CRYPTOCAP_F_HARDWARE
,
to select hardware devices, or CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE
,
to select software devices. If both are specified, a hardware device will be
returned before a software device will be. On success, the value pointed to
by the first argument will be the opaque session handle. The various fields
in the cryptoini structure are:
- cri_alg
- Contains an algorithm identifier. Currently supported algorithms are:
CRYPTO_AES_128_NIST_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_192_NIST_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_256_NIST_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_CBC
CRYPTO_AES_ICM
CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GCM_16
CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_XTS
CRYPTO_ARC4
CRYPTO_BLF_CBC
CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC
CRYPTO_CAST_CBC
CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP
CRYPTO_DES_CBC
CRYPTO_3DES_CBC
CRYPTO_MD5
CRYPTO_MD5_HMAC
CRYPTO_MD5_KPDK
CRYPTO_NULL_HMAC
CRYPTO_NULL_CBC
CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA1
CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA1_KPDK
CRYPTO_SHA2_256_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA2_384_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA2_512_HMAC
CRYPTO_SKIPJACK_CBC
- cri_klen
- Specifies the length of the key in bits, for variable-size key algorithms.
- cri_mlen
- Specifies how many bytes from the calculated hash should be copied back. 0 means entire hash.
- cri_key
- Contains the key to be used with the algorithm.
- cri_iv
- Contains an explicit initialization vector (IV), if it does not prefix the
data. This field is ignored during initialization
(
crypto_newsession
). If no IV is explicitly passed (see below on details), a random IV is used by the device driver processing the request. - cri_next
- Contains a pointer to another cryptoini structure. Multiple such structures may be linked to establish multi-algorithm sessions (ipsec(4) is an example consumer of such a feature).
The cryptoini structure and its contents will not be modified by the framework (or the drivers used).
crypto_freesession
()
is called with the session handle returned by
crypto_newsession
() to free the session.
crypto_dispatch
()
is called to process a request. The various fields in the
cryptop structure are:
- crp_session
- Contains the session handle.
- crp_ilen
- Indicates the total length in bytes of the buffer to be processed.
- crp_olen
- On return, contains the total length of the result. For symmetric crypto operations, this will be the same as the input length. This will be used if the framework needs to allocate a new buffer for the result (or for re-formatting the input).
- crp_callback
- This routine is invoked upon completion of the request, whether successful
or not. It is invoked through the
crypto_done
() routine. If the request was not successful, an error code is set in the crp_etype field. It is the responsibility of the callback routine to set the appropriate spl(9) level. - crp_etype
- Contains the error type, if any errors were encountered, or zero if the
request was successfully processed. If the
EAGAIN
error code is returned, the session handle has changed (and has been recorded in the crp_session field). The consumer should record the new session handle and use it in all subsequent requests. In this case, the request may be re-submitted immediately. This mechanism is used by the framework to perform session migration (move a session from one driver to another, because of availability, performance, or other considerations).Note that this field only makes sense when examined by the callback routine specified in crp_callback. Errors are returned to the invoker of
crypto_process
() only when enough information is not present to call the callback routine (i.e., if the pointer passed isNULL
or if no callback routine was specified). - crp_flags
- Is a bitmask of flags associated with this request. Currently defined
flags are:
CRYPTO_F_IMBUF
- The buffer pointed to by crp_buf is an mbuf chain.
CRYPTO_F_IOV
- The buffer pointed to by crp_buf is an uio structure.
CRYPTO_F_BATCH
- Batch operation if possible.
CRYPTO_F_CBIMM
- Do callback immediately instead of doing it from a dedicated kernel thread.
CRYPTO_F_DONE
- Operation completed.
CRYPTO_F_CBIFSYNC
- Do callback immediately if operation is synchronous (that the driver
specified the
CRYPTOCAP_F_SYNC
flag). CRYPTO_F_ASYNC
- Try to do the crypto operation in a pool of workers if the operation
is synchronous (that is, if the driver specified the
CRYPTOCAP_F_SYNC
flag). It aims to speed up processing by dispatching crypto operations on different processors. CRYPTO_F_ASYNC_KEEPORDER
- Dispatch callbacks in the same order they are posted. Only relevant if
the
CRYPTO_F_ASYNC
flag is set and if the operation is synchronous.
- crp_buf
- Points to the input buffer. On return (when the callback is invoked), it contains the result of the request. The input buffer may be an mbuf chain or a contiguous buffer, depending on crp_flags.
- crp_opaque
- This is passed through the crypto framework untouched and is intended for the invoking application's use.
- crp_desc
- This is a linked list of descriptors. Each descriptor provides information
about what type of cryptographic operation should be done on the input
buffer. The various fields are:
- crd_iv
- When the flag
CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
is set, this field contains the IV. - crd_key
- When the
CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
flag is set, the crd_key points to a buffer with encryption or authentication key. - crd_alg
- An algorithm to use. Must be the same as the one given at newsession time.
- crd_klen
- The crd_key key length.
- crd_skip
- The offset in the input buffer where processing should start.
- crd_len
- How many bytes, after crd_skip, should be processed.
- crd_inject
- The crd_inject field specifies an offset in bytes from the beginning of the buffer. For encryption algorithms, this may be where the IV will be inserted when encrypting or where the IV may be found for decryption (subject to crd_flags). For MAC algorithms, this is where the result of the keyed hash will be inserted.
- crd_flags
- The following flags are defined:
CRD_F_ENCRYPT
- For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when encryption is required (when not set, decryption is performed).
CRD_F_IV_PRESENT
- For encryption, if this bit is not set the IV used to encrypt the
packet will be written at the location pointed to by
crd_inject. The IV length is assumed to be
equal to the blocksize of the encryption algorithm. For
encryption, if this bit is set, nothing is done. For decryption,
this flag has no meaning. Applications that do special “IV
cooking”, such as the half-IV mode in
ipsec(4), can use this flag to indicate that the IV
should not be written on the packet. This flag is typically used
in conjunction with the
CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
flag. CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
- This bit is set when the IV is explicitly provided by the consumer in the crd_iv field. Otherwise, for encryption operations the IV is provided for by the driver used to perform the operation, whereas for decryption operations the offset of the IV is provided by the crd_inject field. This flag is typically used when the IV is calculated “on the fly” by the consumer, and does not precede the data (some ipsec(4) configurations, and the encrypted swap are two such examples).
CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
- For encryption and authentication (MAC) algorithms, this bit is set when the key is explicitly provided by the consumer in the crd_key field for the given operation. Otherwise, the key is taken at newsession time from the cri_key field. As calculating the key schedule may take a while, it is recommended that often used keys are given their own session.
CRD_F_COMP
- For compression algorithms, this bit is set when compression is required (when not set, decompression is performed).
- CRD_INI
- This cryptoini structure will not be modified by the framework or the device drivers. Since this information accompanies every cryptographic operation request, drivers may re-initialize state on-demand (typically an expensive operation). Furthermore, the cryptographic framework may re-route requests as a result of full queues or hardware failure, as described above.
- crd_next
- Point to the next descriptor. Linked operations are useful in protocols such as ipsec(4), where multiple cryptographic transforms may be applied on the same block of data.
crypto_getreq
()
allocates a cryptop structure with a linked list of as
many cryptodesc structures as were specified in the
argument passed to it.
crypto_freereq
()
deallocates a structure cryptop and any
cryptodesc structures linked to it. Note that it is
the responsibility of the callback routine to do the necessary cleanups
associated with the opaque field in the cryptop
structure.
crypto_kdispatch
()
is called to perform a keying operation. The various fields in the
cryptkop structure are:
- krp_op
- Operation code, such as
CRK_MOD_EXP
. - krp_status
- Return code. This errno-style variable indicates whether lower level reasons for operation failure.
- krp_iparams
- Number if input parameters to the specified operation. Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
- krp_oparams
- Number if output parameters from the specified operation. Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
- krp_kvp
- An array of kernel memory blocks containing the parameters.
- krp_hid
- Identifier specifying which low-level driver is being used.
- krp_callback
- Callback called on completion of a keying operation.
DRIVER-SIDE API
The crypto_get_driverid
(),
crypto_get_driver_session
(),
crypto_register
(),
crypto_kregister
(),
crypto_unregister
(),
crypto_unblock
(), and
crypto_done
() routines are used by drivers that
provide support for cryptographic primitives to register and unregister with
the kernel crypto services framework.
Drivers must first use the
crypto_get_driverid
()
function to acquire a driver identifier, specifying the
flags as an argument. One of
CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE
or
CRYPTOCAP_F_HARDWARE
must be specified. The
CRYPTOCAP_F_SYNC
may also be specified, and should
be specified if the driver does all of it's operations synchronously.
Drivers must pass the size of their session struct as the second argument.
An appropriately sized memory will be allocated by the framework, zeroed,
and passed to the driver's
newsession
()
method.
For each algorithm the driver supports, it
must then call
crypto_register
().
The first two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers. The next
two arguments specify the largest possible operator length (in bits,
important for public key operations) and flags for this algorithm. The last
four arguments must be provided in the first call to
crypto_register
() and are ignored in all subsequent
calls. They are pointers to three driver-provided functions that the
framework may call to establish new cryptographic context with the driver,
free already established context, and ask for a request to be processed
(encrypt, decrypt, etc.); and an opaque parameter to pass when calling each
of these routines.
crypto_unregister
()
is called by drivers that wish to withdraw support for an algorithm. The two
arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers, respectively. Typically,
drivers for PCMCIA crypto cards that are being ejected will invoke this
routine for all algorithms supported by the card.
crypto_unregister_all
()
will unregister all algorithms registered by a driver and the driver will be
disabled (no new sessions will be allocated on that driver, and any existing
sessions will be migrated to other drivers). The same will be done if all
algorithms associated with a driver are unregistered one by one. After a
call to crypto_unregister_all
() there will be no
threads in either the newsession or freesession function of the driver.
The calling convention for the driver-supplied routines are:
- int
(*newsession)
(device_t, crypto_session_t, struct cryptoini *); - void
(*freesession)
(device_t, crypto_session_t); - int
(*process)
(device_t, struct cryptop *, int); - int
(*kprocess)
(device_t, struct cryptkop *, int);
On invocation, the first argument to
all routines is the device_t that was provided to
crypto_get_driverid
().
The second argument to
newsession
()
is the opaque session handle for the new session. The third argument is
identical to that of crypto_newsession
().
Drivers obtain a pointer to their
session memory by invoking
crypto_get_driver_session
()
on the opaque crypto_session_t handle.
The
freesession
()
routine takes as arguments the opaque data value and the session handle. It
should clear any context associated with the session (clear hardware
registers, memory, etc.). If no resources need to be released other than the
contents of session memory, the method is optional. The
crypto
framework will zero and release the allocated
session memory (after running the freesession
()
method, if one exists).
The
process
()
routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto processing. This routine
must not block or sleep, but should queue the request and return immediately
or process the request to completion. In case of an unrecoverable error, the
error indication must be placed in the crp_etype field
of the cryptop structure. When the request is
completed, or an error is detected, the process
()
routine must invoke crypto_done
(). Session migration
may be performed, as mentioned previously.
In case of a temporary resource exhaustion, the
process
()
routine may return ERESTART
in which case the crypto
services will requeue the request, mark the driver as
“blocked”, and stop submitting requests for processing. The
driver is then responsible for notifying the crypto services when it is
again able to process requests through the
crypto_unblock
()
routine. This simple flow control mechanism should only be used for
short-lived resource exhaustion as it causes operations to be queued in the
crypto layer. Doing so is preferable to returning an error in such cases as
it can cause network protocols to degrade performance by treating the
failure much like a lost packet.
The
kprocess
()
routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto key processing. This
routine must not block, but should queue the request and return immediately.
Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked. In case
of an unrecoverable error, the error indication must be placed in the
krp_status field of the cryptkop
structure. When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the
kprocess
() routine should invoked
crypto_kdone
().
RETURN VALUES
crypto_register
(),
crypto_kregister
(),
crypto_unregister
(),
crypto_newsession
(),
crypto_freesession
(), and
crypto_unblock
() return 0 on success, or an error
code on failure. crypto_get_driverid
() returns a
non-negative value on error, and -1 on failure.
crypto_getreq
() returns a pointer to a
cryptop structure and NULL
on
failure. crypto_dispatch
() returns
EINVAL
if its argument or the callback function was
NULL
, and 0 otherwise. The callback is provided with
an error code in case of failure, in the crp_etype
field.
FILES
- sys/opencrypto/crypto.c
- most of the framework code
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The cryptographic framework first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7 and was written by Angelos D. Keromytis <angelos@openbsd.org>.
BUGS
The framework currently assumes that all the algorithms in a
crypto_newsession
() operation must be available by
the same driver. If that is not the case, session initialization will
fail.
The framework also needs a mechanism for determining which driver is best for a specific set of algorithms associated with a session. Some type of benchmarking is in order here.
Multiple instances of the same algorithm in the same session are not supported.