Open Crypto Framework Changes: Round 1

[John Baldwin]

A while back I ranted about what I perceived to be several issues with
our in-kernel framework.  I've been working on a first round of changes
over the past several months and believe I've gotten far enough to be
a first milestone that's probably suitable for merging.  At this point
what I would most appreciate is design review on what I've done so far
(though an eye towards the future wouldn't hurt).  I have more changes I
think I'd like to make, but this is a big enough chunk to chew on for
now.

The code:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/compare/master...bsdjhb:ocf_rework

Summary of changes:

- The linked list of cryptoini structures used in session
  initialization is replaced with a new flat structure: struct
  crypto_session_params.  This session includes a new mode to define
  how the other fields should be interpreted.  Available modes
  include:

  - COMPRESS (for compression/decompression)
  - CIPHER (for simple encryption/decryption)
  - DIGEST (computing and verifying digests)
  - AEAD (combined auth and encryption such as AES-GCM and AES-CCM)
  - ETA (combined auth and encryption using encrypt-then-authenticate)

  Additional modes could be added in the future (e.g. if we wanted to
  support TLS MtE for AES-CBC in the kernel we could add a new mode
  for that.  TLS modes might also affect how AAD is interpreted, etc.)

  The flat structure also includes the key lengths and algorithms as
  before.  However, code doesn't have to walk the linked list and
  switch on the algorithm to determine which key is the auth key vs
  encryption key.  The 'csp_auth_*' fields are always used for auth
  keys and settings and 'csp_cipher_*' for cipher.  (Compression
  algorithms are stored in csp_cipher_alg.)

- Drivers no longer register a list of supported algorithms.  This
  doesn't quite work when you factor in modes (e.g. a driver might
  support both AES-CBC and SHA2-256-HMAC separately but not combined
  for ETA).  Instead, a new 'crypto_probesession' method has been
  added to the kobj interface for symmteric crypto drivers.  This
  method returns a negative value on success (similar to how
  device_probe works) and the crypto framework uses this value to pick
  the "best" driver.  There are three constants for hardware
  (e.g. ccr), accelerated software (e.g. aesni), and plain software
  (cryptosoft) that give preference in that order.  One effect of this
  is that if you request hardware when creating a new session, you
  will no longer get a session using accelerated software.

  Once a driver is chosen, 'crypto_newsession' is invoked as before.

- Crypto operations are now solely described by the flat 'cryptop'
  structure.  The linked list of descriptors has been removed.

  A separate enum has been added to describe the type of data buffer
  in use instead of using CRYPTO_F_* flags to make it easier to add
  more types in the future if needed (e.g. wired userspace buffers for
  zero-copy).  It will also make it easier to re-introduce separate
  input and output buffers (in-kernel TLS would benefit from this).

  I've tried to make the flags related to IV handling less insane:

  - CRYPTO_F_IV_SEPARATE means that the IV is stored in the 'crp_iv'
    member of the operation structure.  If this flag is not set, the
    IV is stored in the data buffer at the 'crp_iv_start' offset.

  - CRYPTO_F_IV_GENERATE means that a random IV should be generated
    and stored into the data buffer.  This cannot be used with
    CRYPTO_F_IV_SEPARATE.

  If a consumer wants to deal with explicit vs implicit IVs, etc. it
  can always generate the IV however it needs and store partial IVs in
  the data buffer and the full IV/nonce in crp_iv and set
  CRYPTO_F_IV_SEPARATE.

  The layout of the buffer is now described via fields in cryptop.
  crp_aad_start and crp_aad_length define the boundaries of any AAD.
  Previously with GCM and CCM you defined an auth crd with this range,
  but for ETA your auth crd had to span both the AAD and plaintext
  (and they had to be adjacent).

  crp_payload_start and crp_payload_length define the boundaries of
  the plaintext/ciphertext.  Modes that only do a single operation
  (COMPRESS, CIPHER, DIGEST) should only use this region and leave the
  AAD region empty.

  If a digest is present (or should be generated), it's starting
  location is marked by crp_digest_start.

  Instead of using the CRD_F_ENCRYPT flag to determine the direction
  of the operation, cryptop now includes an 'op' field defining the
  operation to perform.  For digests I've added a new VERIFY digest
  mode which assumes a digest is present in the input and fails the
  request with EBADMSG if it doesn't match the internally-computed
  digest.  GCM and CCM already assumed this, and the new AEAD mode
  requires this for decryption.  However, ETA mode now supports doing
  a verify as well (so in this tree IPsec always requests that the
  crypto layer verify the digest instead of doing it in IPsec).
  Simple DIGEST operations can also do this, though there are no
  in-tree consumers.

  To eventually support some refcounting to close races, the session
  cookie is now passed to crypto_getop() and clients should no longer
  set crp_sesssion directly.

- Assymteric crypto operation structures should be allocated via
  crypto_getkreq() and freed via crypto_freekreq().  This permits the
  crypto layer to track open asym requests and close races with a
  driver trying to unregister while asym requests are in flight.

- crypto_copyback, crypto_copydata, crypto_apply, and
  crypto_contiguous_subsegment now accept the 'crp' object as the
  first parameter instead of individual members.  This makes it easier
  to deal with different buffer types in the future as well as
  separate input and output buffers.  It's also just simpler for
  driver writers to use.

- GCM and CCM sessions now only specify a cipher algorithm and a cipher
  key.  The redundant auth information is not needed or used.

- I have only converted a few things to date as I wanted to get an ok on
  the design before converting the rest:

  - /dev/crypto
  - IPsec

  - cryptosoft0
  - ccr

  In the case of cryptosoft, I did split up the code a bit such that the
  'process' callback now invokes a function pointer in the session.  This
  function pointer is set based on the mode (in effect) though it simplifies
  a few edge cases that would otherwise be in the switch in 'process'.

  It does split up GCM vs CCM which I think is more readable even if there
  is some duplication.

- I changed /dev/crypto to support GMAC requests using CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GMAC
  as an auth algorithm and updated cryptocheck to work with it.

- I have not yet updated /dev/crypto to be aware of explicit modes for
  sessions.  I will probably do that at some point in the future as well
  as teach it about IV/nonce and tag lengths for AEAD so we can support
  all of the NIST KAT tests for GCM and CCM.

-- 
John Baldwin