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25 .Nd API for cryptographic services in the kernel
29 .In opencrypto/cryptodev.h
31 .Fn crypto_get_driverid "device_t dev" "int flags"
33 .Fn crypto_find_driver "const char *match"
35 .Fn crypto_find_device_byhid "int hid"
37 .Fn crypto_getcaps "int hid"
39 .Fn crypto_register "u_int32_t driverid" "int alg" "u_int16_t maxoplen" "u_int32_t flags"
41 .Fn crypto_kregister "u_int32_t driverid" "int kalg" "u_int32_t flags"
43 .Fn crypto_unregister "u_int32_t driverid" "int alg"
45 .Fn crypto_unregister_all "u_int32_t driverid"
47 .Fn crypto_done "struct cryptop *crp"
49 .Fn crypto_kdone "struct cryptkop *krp"
51 .Fn crypto_newsession "u_int64_t *sid" "struct cryptoini *cri" "int crid"
53 .Fn crypto_freesession "u_int64_t sid"
55 .Fn crypto_dispatch "struct cryptop *crp"
57 .Fn crypto_kdispatch "struct cryptkop *krp"
59 .Fn crypto_unblock "u_int32_t driverid" "int what"
60 .Ft "struct cryptop *"
61 .Fn crypto_getreq "int num"
63 .Fn crypto_freereq "struct cryptop *crp"
65 #define CRYPTO_SYMQ 0x1
66 #define CRYPTO_ASYMQ 0x2
68 #define EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN 16
75 u_int8_t cri_iv[EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN];
76 struct cryptoini *cri_next;
84 struct cryptoini CRD_INI;
85 #define crd_iv CRD_INI.cri_iv
86 #define crd_key CRD_INI.cri_key
87 #define crd_alg CRD_INI.cri_alg
88 #define crd_klen CRD_INI.cri_klen
89 struct cryptodesc *crd_next;
93 TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptop) crp_next;
101 struct cryptodesc *crp_desc;
102 int (*crp_callback) (struct cryptop *);
111 #define CRK_MAXPARAM 8
114 TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptkop) krp_next;
115 u_int krp_op; /* ie. CRK_MOD_EXP or other */
116 u_int krp_status; /* return status */
117 u_short krp_iparams; /* # of input parameters */
118 u_short krp_oparams; /* # of output parameters */
120 struct crparam krp_param[CRK_MAXPARAM];
121 int (*krp_callback)(struct cryptkop *);
126 is a framework for drivers of cryptographic hardware to register with
129 (other kernel subsystems, and
132 device) are able to make use of it.
133 Drivers register with the framework the algorithms they support,
134 and provide entry points (functions) the framework may call to
135 establish, use, and tear down sessions.
136 Sessions are used to cache cryptographic information in a particular driver
137 (or associated hardware), so initialization is not needed with every request.
138 Consumers of cryptographic services pass a set of
139 descriptors that instruct the framework (and the drivers registered
140 with it) of the operations that should be applied on the data (more
141 than one cryptographic operation can be requested).
143 Keying operations are supported as well.
144 Unlike the symmetric operators described above,
145 these sessionless commands perform mathematical operations using
146 input and output parameters.
148 Since the consumers may not be associated with a process, drivers may
151 The same holds for the framework.
152 Thus, a callback mechanism is used
153 to notify a consumer that a request has been completed (the
154 callback is specified by the consumer on an per-request basis).
155 The callback is invoked by the framework whether the request was
156 successfully completed or not.
157 An error indication is provided in the latter case.
158 A specific error code,
160 is used to indicate that a session number has changed and that the
161 request may be re-submitted immediately with the new session number.
162 Errors are only returned to the invoking function if not
163 enough information to call the callback is available (meaning, there
164 was a fatal error in verifying the arguments).
165 For session initialization and teardown there is no callback mechanism used.
168 .Fn crypto_newsession
169 routine is called by consumers of cryptographic services
170 that wish to establish a new session with the framework.
171 On success, the first argument will contain the Session Identifier (SID).
172 The second argument contains all the necessary information for
173 the driver to establish the session.
174 The third argument indicates whether a
175 hardware driver (1) should be used or not (0).
176 The various fields in the
179 .Bl -tag -width ".Va cri_next"
181 Contains an algorithm identifier.
182 Currently supported algorithms are:
184 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC" -compact
185 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CBC
186 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_XTS
187 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CTR
188 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_GCM_16
189 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_GMAC
190 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_128_GMAC
191 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_192_GMAC
192 .It Dv CRYPTO_AES_256_GMAC
193 .It Dv CRYPTO_TWOFISH_CBC
194 .It Dv CRYPTO_TWOFISH_XTS
195 .It Dv CRYPTO_SERPENT_CBC
196 .It Dv CRYPTO_SERPENT_XTS
198 .It Dv CRYPTO_BLF_CBC
199 .It Dv CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC
200 .It Dv CRYPTO_CAST_CBC
201 .It Dv CRYPTO_DES_CBC
202 .It Dv CRYPTO_3DES_CBC
203 .It Dv CRYPTO_SKIPJACK_CBC
205 .It Dv CRYPTO_MD5_HMAC
206 .It Dv CRYPTO_MD5_KPDK
207 .It Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC
209 .It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC
210 .It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1_KPDK
211 .It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_256_HMAC
212 .It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_384_HMAC
213 .It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_512_HMAC
214 .It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_HMAC
215 .It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_CBC
218 Specifies the length of the key in bits, for variable-size key
221 Specifies how many bytes from the calculated hash should be copied back.
224 Contains the key to be used with the algorithm.
226 Contains an explicit initialization vector (IV), if it does not prefix
228 This field is ignored during initialization.
229 If no IV is explicitly passed (see below on details), a random IV is used
230 by the device driver processing the request.
232 Contains a pointer to another
235 Multiple such structures may be linked to establish multi-algorithm sessions.
240 structure and its contents will not be modified by the framework (or
242 Subsequent requests for processing that use the
243 SID returned will avoid the cost of re-initializing the hardware (in
244 essence, SID acts as an index in the session cache of the driver).
246 .Fn crypto_freesession
247 is called with the SID returned by
248 .Fn crypto_newsession
249 to disestablish the session.
252 is called to process a request.
253 The various fields in the
256 .Bl -tag -width ".Va crp_callback"
260 Indicates the total length in bytes of the buffer to be processed.
262 On return, contains the total length of the result.
263 For symmetric crypto operations, this will be the same as the input length.
264 This will be used if the framework needs to allocate a new
265 buffer for the result (or for re-formatting the input).
267 This routine is invoked upon completion of the request, whether
269 It is invoked through the
272 If the request was not successful, an error code is set in the
275 It is the responsibility of the callback routine to enter a critical
278 Contains the error type, if any errors were encountered, or zero if
279 the request was successfully processed.
282 error code is returned, the SID has changed (and has been recorded in the
285 The consumer should record the new SID and use it in all subsequent requests.
286 In this case, the request may be re-submitted immediately.
287 This mechanism is used by the framework to perform
288 session migration (move a session from one driver to another, because
289 of availability, performance, or other considerations).
291 Note that this field only makes sense when examined by
292 the callback routine specified in
294 Errors are returned to the invoker of
296 only when enough information is not present to call the callback
297 routine (i.e., if the pointer passed is
299 or if no callback routine was specified).
301 Is a bitmask of flags associated with this request.
302 Currently defined flags are:
303 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIFSYNC"
304 .It Dv CRYPTO_F_IMBUF
305 The buffer pointed to by
309 The buffer pointed to by
315 Must return data in the same place.
316 .It Dv CRYPTO_F_BATCH
317 Batch operation if possible.
318 .It Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIMM
319 Do callback immediately instead of doing it from a dedicated kernel thread.
322 .It Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIFSYNC
323 Do callback immediately if operation is synchronous.
326 Points to the input buffer.
327 On return (when the callback is invoked),
328 it contains the result of the request.
329 The input buffer may be an mbuf
330 chain or a contiguous buffer,
334 This is passed through the crypto framework untouched and is
335 intended for the invoking application's use.
337 This is a linked list of descriptors.
338 Each descriptor provides
339 information about what type of cryptographic operation should be done
341 The various fields are:
342 .Bl -tag -width ".Va crd_inject"
344 The field where IV should be provided when the
345 .Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
349 .Dv CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
352 points to a buffer with encryption or authentication key.
355 Must be the same as the one given at newsession time.
361 The offset in the input buffer where processing should start.
363 How many bytes, after
367 Offset from the beginning of the buffer to insert any results.
368 For encryption algorithms, this is where the initialization vector
369 (IV) will be inserted when encrypting or where it can be found when
370 decrypting (subject to
372 For MAC algorithms, this is where the result of the keyed hash will be
375 The following flags are defined:
378 For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when encryption is required
379 (when not set, decryption is performed).
380 .It Dv CRD_F_IV_PRESENT
381 For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when the IV already
382 precedes the data, so the
384 value will be ignored and no IV will be written in the buffer.
385 Otherwise, the IV used to encrypt the packet will be written
386 at the location pointed to by
388 The IV length is assumed to be equal to the blocksize of the
389 encryption algorithm.
390 Some applications that do special
392 can use this flag to indicate that the IV should not be written on the packet.
393 This flag is typically used in conjunction with the
394 .Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
396 .It Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
397 For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when the IV is explicitly
398 provided by the consumer in the
401 Otherwise, for encryption operations the IV is provided for by
402 the driver used to perform the operation, whereas for decryption
403 operations it is pointed to by the
406 This flag is typically used when the IV is calculated
408 by the consumer, and does not precede the data
409 (encrypted swap being an example).
410 .It Dv CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
411 For encryption and authentication (MAC) algorithms, this bit is set when the key
412 is explicitly provided by the consumer in the
414 field for the given operation.
415 Otherwise, the key is taken at newsession time from the
419 For compression algorithms, this bit is set when compression is required (when
420 not set, decompression is performed).
425 structure will not be modified by the framework or the device drivers.
426 Since this information accompanies every cryptographic
427 operation request, drivers may re-initialize state on-demand
428 (typically an expensive operation).
429 Furthermore, the cryptographic
430 framework may re-route requests as a result of full queues or hardware
431 failure, as described above.
433 Point to the next descriptor.
434 Linked operations are useful in protocols
435 where multiple cryptographic transforms may be applied on the same
443 structure with a linked list of as many
445 structures as were specified in the argument passed to it.
448 deallocates a structure
452 structures linked to it.
453 Note that it is the responsibility of the
454 callback routine to do the necessary cleanups associated with the
460 is called to perform a keying operation.
461 The various fields in the
464 .Bl -tag -width ".Va krp_callback"
466 Operation code, such as
472 variable indicates whether lower level reasons
473 for operation failure.
475 Number if input parameters to the specified operation.
476 Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
478 Number if output parameters from the specified operation.
479 Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
481 An array of kernel memory blocks containing the parameters.
483 Identifier specifying which low-level driver is being used.
485 Callback called on completion of a keying operation.
489 .Fn crypto_get_driverid ,
490 .Fn crypto_register ,
491 .Fn crypto_kregister ,
492 .Fn crypto_unregister ,
496 routines are used by drivers that provide support for cryptographic
497 primitives to register and unregister with the kernel crypto services
499 Drivers must first use the
500 .Fn crypto_get_driverid
501 function to acquire a driver identifier, specifying the
503 as an argument (normally 0, but software-only drivers should specify
504 .Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE ) .
505 For each algorithm the driver supports, it must then call
506 .Fn crypto_register .
507 The first two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers.
508 The next two arguments specify the largest possible operator length (in bits,
509 important for public key operations) and flags for this algorithm.
510 The last four arguments must be provided in the first call to
512 and are ignored in all subsequent calls.
513 They are pointers to three
514 driver-provided functions that the framework may call to establish new
515 cryptographic context with the driver, free already established
516 context, and ask for a request to be processed (encrypt, decrypt,
517 etc.); and an opaque parameter to pass when calling each of these routines.
518 .Fn crypto_unregister
519 is called by drivers that wish to withdraw support for an algorithm.
520 The two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers, respectively.
521 Typically, drivers for
523 crypto cards that are being ejected will invoke this routine for all
524 algorithms supported by the card.
525 .Fn crypto_unregister_all
526 will unregister all algorithms registered by a driver
527 and the driver will be disabled (no new sessions will be allocated on
528 that driver, and any existing sessions will be migrated to other
530 The same will be done if all algorithms associated with a driver are
531 unregistered one by one.
533 The calling convention for the three driver-supplied routines is:
538 .Fn (*newsession) "void *" "u_int32_t *" "struct cryptoini *" ;
541 .Fn (*freesession) "void *" "u_int64_t" ;
544 .Fn (*process) "void *" "struct cryptop *" ;
547 .Fn (*kprocess) "void *" "struct cryptkop *" ;
550 On invocation, the first argument to
551 all routines is an opaque data value supplied when the algorithm
553 .Fn crypto_register .
554 The second argument to
556 contains the driver identifier obtained via
557 .Fn crypto_get_driverid .
558 On successful return, it should contain a driver-specific session
560 The third argument is identical to that of
561 .Fn crypto_newsession .
565 routine takes as arguments the opaque data value and the SID
566 (which is the concatenation of the
567 driver identifier and the driver-specific session identifier).
568 It should clear any context associated with the session (clear hardware
569 registers, memory, etc.).
573 routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto processing.
574 This routine must not block, but should queue the request and return
576 Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked.
577 In case of an unrecoverable error, the error indication must be placed in the
582 When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the
584 routine should invoke
586 Session migration may be performed, as mentioned previously.
588 In case of a temporary resource exhaustion, the
592 in which case the crypto services will requeue the request, mark the driver
595 and stop submitting requests for processing.
596 The driver is then responsible for notifying the crypto services
597 when it is again able to process requests through the
600 This simple flow control mechanism should only be used for short-lived
601 resource exhaustion as it causes operations to be queued in the crypto
603 Doing so is preferable to returning an error in such cases as
604 it can cause network protocols to degrade performance by treating the
605 failure much like a lost packet.
609 routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto key processing.
610 This routine must not block, but should queue the request and return
612 Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked.
613 In case of an unrecoverable error, the error indication must be placed in the
618 When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the
620 routine should invoked
623 .Fn crypto_register ,
624 .Fn crypto_kregister ,
625 .Fn crypto_unregister ,
626 .Fn crypto_newsession ,
627 .Fn crypto_freesession ,
630 return 0 on success, or an error code on failure.
631 .Fn crypto_get_driverid
632 returns a non-negative value on error, and \-1 on failure.
634 returns a pointer to a
642 if its argument or the callback function was
645 The callback is provided with an error code in case of failure, in the
649 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c"
650 .It Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c
651 most of the framework code
657 The cryptographic framework first appeared in
660 .An Angelos D. Keromytis Aq Mt angelos@openbsd.org .
662 The framework currently assumes that all the algorithms in a
663 .Fn crypto_newsession
664 operation must be available by the same driver.
665 If that is not the case, session initialization will fail.
667 The framework also needs a mechanism for determining which driver is
668 best for a specific set of algorithms associated with a session.
669 Some type of benchmarking is in order here.
671 Multiple instances of the same algorithm in the same session are not
673 Note that 3DES is considered one algorithm (and not three
675 Thus, 3DES and DES could be mixed in the same request.