Re: [PATCH 2/3] AF_ALG: Drop support for off-CPU cryptography

On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 1:09 AM Eric Biggers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You've only mentioned that it "can" be used in this way in upstream.
> > Can you confirm that it *is* used, and with an actual upstream algorithm
> > name, and if so which one(s)?  And if so, would you also be able to
> > share whether this is for dm-crypt or not?  We should remember that
> > dm-crypt accepts keys directly and AF_ALG is not needed to use it.
>
> We'd also need to know whether the user (if there is one) requires
> unprivileged use.
>
> Hopefully not: these sorts of hardware crypto drivers have lots of bugs.
> Indeed, the CAAM "cbc(paes)" doesn't validate the key length correctly,
> leaks DMA mappings, concurrent requests race with each other, etc...

Uff, you're right. There are some nasty bugs.
I guess nobody noticed so far because the algorithm is only used a few times
at bootup (as root).

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Thanks,
//richard