[PATCH 0/4] crypto: drbg - revamp locking

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Hi,

the current implementation of the DRBG generates a shadow copy of its
DRBG state for each incoming request. The idea is that only a short
term lock is needed to spawn the shadow copy. The drawback is that
if multiple parallel requests come in, the generated DRBG shadow
states only differ by a high-resolution timer that was mixed in during
the shadow state generation.

This patch now removes this shadow state and introduces a mutex
to serialize all requests to one DRBG instance.

The patch was fully CAVS tested and demonstrates that the DRBG still
complies with the standard.

Stephan Mueller (4):
  cryoto: drbg - clear all temporary memory
  crypto: drbg - do not create shadow copy
  crypto: drbg - replace spinlock with mutex
  crypto: drbg - leave cipher handles operational

 crypto/drbg.c         | 154 +++++++++-----------------------------------------
 include/crypto/drbg.h |   4 +-
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)

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2.1.0


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