Re: vmx ghash buggy on ppc64le

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Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:18:45AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have received a report that ghash on ppc64le does not interoperate
> with other implementations of ghash, e.g., on x86-64.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490972
> 
> Could you guys take a look at this and see if this is a bug in
> the mainline vmx driver too?
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 

Hi Herbert,

It seems that this bug is affected by the fact that ctr mode is using
blkcipher for the fallback.

I just sent a patch [1] to make it use skcipher and, since then, ipsec
with  ikev2 and ghash are working fine for ppc64 and ppc64le.

Best regards,

-- 
Paulo Flabiano Smorigo
IBM Linux Technology Center

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/16/911




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