Re: [PATCH 5/6] crypto: arm64/aes-blk - update IV after partial final CTR block

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 09:28, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:14:13AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 09:04, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Make the arm64 ctr-aes-neon and ctr-aes-ce algorithms update the IV
> > > buffer to contain the next counter after processing a partial final
> > > block, rather than leave it as the last counter.  This makes these
> > > algorithms pass the updated AES-CTR tests.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I take it this means we return an output IV even if the algorithm
> > could never proceed in a meaningful way, given that we throw away some
> > keystream bits that would be needed in that case.
> >
> > That means this change is strictly there to make the test framework
> > happy, even for cases that can never appear in reality.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better not to set out_iv for input buffers whose size
> > is not a multiple of the block size?
> >
>
> See the explanation in patch 4 for why the tests test for this.  It's not a
> super strong argument but this seems like the best thing to do.
>

Fair enough.

Do you have a branch with this stuff that I can drop into kernelci
again? Preferably one that already has the tests enabled by default,
and panics on failure.



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