The previous description have been misleading and partially incorrect.
Reported-by: Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algif_aead.c | 14 ++------------
include/crypto/aead.h | 36 ++++++++++++------------------------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/algif_aead.c b/crypto/algif_aead.c
index 80a0f1a..a0d8377 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_aead.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_aead.c
@@ -551,18 +551,8 @@ static int aead_recvmsg_sync(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, int flags)
lock_sock(sk);
/*
- * AEAD memory structure: For encryption, the tag is appended to the
- * ciphertext which implies that the memory allocated for the ciphertext
- * must be increased by the tag length. For decryption, the tag
- * is expected to be concatenated to the ciphertext. The plaintext
- * therefore has a memory size of the ciphertext minus the tag length.
- *
- * The memory structure for cipher operation has the following
- * structure:
- * AEAD encryption input: assoc data || plaintext
- * AEAD encryption output: cipherntext || auth tag
- * AEAD decryption input: assoc data || ciphertext || auth tag
- * AEAD decryption output: plaintext
+ * Please see documentation of aead_request_set_crypt for the
+ * description of the AEAD memory structure expected from the caller.
*/
if (ctx->more) {
diff --git a/include/crypto/aead.h b/include/crypto/aead.h
index e725155..03b9762 100644
--- a/include/crypto/aead.h
+++ b/include/crypto/aead.h
@@ -483,30 +483,18 @@ static inline void aead_request_set_callback(struct aead_request *req,
* destination is the ciphertext. For a decryption operation, the use is
* reversed - the source is the ciphertext and the destination is the plaintext.
*
- * For both src/dst the layout is associated data, plain/cipher text,
- * authentication tag.
- *
- * The content of the AD in the destination buffer after processing
- * will either be untouched, or it will contain a copy of the AD
- * from the source buffer. In order to ensure that it always has
- * a copy of the AD, the user must copy the AD over either before
- * or after processing. Of course this is not relevant if the user
- * is doing in-place processing where src == dst.
- *
- * IMPORTANT NOTE AEAD requires an authentication tag (MAC). For decryption,
- * the caller must concatenate the ciphertext followed by the
- * authentication tag and provide the entire data stream to the
- * decryption operation (i.e. the data length used for the
- * initialization of the scatterlist and the data length for the
- * decryption operation is identical). For encryption, however,
- * the authentication tag is created while encrypting the data.
- * The destination buffer must hold sufficient space for the
- * ciphertext and the authentication tag while the encryption
- * invocation must only point to the plaintext data size. The
- * following code snippet illustrates the memory usage
- * buffer = kmalloc(ptbuflen + (enc ? authsize : 0));
- * sg_init_one(&sg, buffer, ptbuflen + (enc ? authsize : 0));
- * aead_request_set_crypt(req, &sg, &sg, ptbuflen, iv);
+ * The memory structure for cipher operation has the following structure:
+ *
+ * - AEAD encryption input: assoc data || plaintext
+ * - AEAD encryption output: assoc data || cipherntext || auth tag
+ * - AEAD decryption input: assoc data || ciphertext || auth tag
+ * - AEAD decryption output: assoc data || plaintext
+ *
+ * Albeit the kernel requires the presence of the AAD buffer, however,
+ * the kernel does not fill the AAD buffer in the output case. If the
+ * caller wants to have that data buffer filled, the caller must either
+ * use an in-place cipher operation (i.e. same memory location for
+ * input/output memory location).
*/
static inline void aead_request_set_crypt(struct aead_request *req,
struct scatterlist *src,
--
2.7.4
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