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20.Dd July 10, 2015
21.Dt CRYPTO 9
22.Os
23.Sh NAME
24.Nm crypto
25.Nd API for cryptographic services in the kernel
26.Sh SYNOPSIS
27.In opencrypto/cryptodev.h
28.Ft int32_t
29.Fn crypto_get_driverid device_t int
30.Ft int
31.Fn crypto_register uint32_t int uint16_t uint32_t "int \*[lp]*\*[rp]\*[lp]void *, uint32_t *, struct cryptoini *\*[rp]" "int \*[lp]*\*[rp]\*[lp]void *, uint64_t\*[rp]" "int \*[lp]*\*[rp]\*[lp]void *, struct cryptop *\*[rp]" "void *"
32.Ft int
33.Fn crypto_kregister uint32_t int uint32_t "int \*[lp]*\*[rp]\*[lp]void *, struct cryptkop *\*[rp]" "void *"
34.Ft int
35.Fn crypto_unregister uint32_t int
36.Ft int
37.Fn crypto_unregister_all uint32_t
38.Ft void
39.Fn crypto_done "struct cryptop *"
40.Ft void
41.Fn crypto_kdone "struct cryptkop *"
42.Ft int
43.Fn crypto_find_driver "const char *"
44.Ft int
45.Fn crypto_newsession "uint64_t *" "struct cryptoini *" int
46.Ft int
47.Fn crypto_freesession uint64_t
48.Ft int
49.Fn crypto_dispatch "struct cryptop *"
50.Ft int
51.Fn crypto_kdispatch "struct cryptkop *"
52.Ft int
53.Fn crypto_unblock uint32_t int
54.Ft "struct cryptop *"
55.Fn crypto_getreq int
56.Ft void
57.Fn crypto_freereq void
58.Bd -literal
59#define	CRYPTO_SYMQ	0x1
60#define	CRYPTO_ASYMQ	0x2
61
62#define EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN      16
63
64struct cryptoini {
65	int                cri_alg;
66	int                cri_klen;
67	int                cri_mlen;
68	caddr_t            cri_key;
69	uint8_t            cri_iv[EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN];
70	struct cryptoini  *cri_next;
71};
72
73struct cryptodesc {
74	int                crd_skip;
75	int                crd_len;
76	int                crd_inject;
77	int                crd_flags;
78	struct cryptoini   CRD_INI;
79#define crd_iv          CRD_INI.cri_iv
80#define crd_key         CRD_INI.cri_key
81#define crd_alg         CRD_INI.cri_alg
82#define crd_klen        CRD_INI.cri_klen
83	struct cryptodesc *crd_next;
84};
85
86struct cryptop {
87	TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptop) crp_next;
88	uint64_t           crp_sid;
89	int                crp_ilen;
90	int                crp_olen;
91	int                crp_etype;
92	int                crp_flags;
93	caddr_t            crp_buf;
94	caddr_t            crp_opaque;
95	struct cryptodesc *crp_desc;
96	int              (*crp_callback) (struct cryptop *);
97	caddr_t            crp_mac;
98};
99
100struct crparam {
101        caddr_t         crp_p;
102        u_int           crp_nbits;
103};
104
105#define CRK_MAXPARAM    8
106
107struct cryptkop {
108        TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptkop) krp_next;
109        u_int              krp_op;         /* ie. CRK_MOD_EXP or other */
110        u_int              krp_status;     /* return status */
111        u_short            krp_iparams;    /* # of input parameters */
112        u_short            krp_oparams;    /* # of output parameters */
113        uint32_t           krp_hid;
114        struct crparam     krp_param[CRK_MAXPARAM];
115        int               (*krp_callback)(struct cryptkop *);
116};
117.Ed
118.Sh DESCRIPTION
119.Nm
120is a framework for drivers of cryptographic hardware to register with
121the kernel so
122.Dq consumers
123(other kernel subsystems, and
124users through the
125.Pa /dev/crypto
126device) are able to make use of it.
127Drivers register with the framework the algorithms they support,
128and provide entry points (functions) the framework may call to
129establish, use, and tear down sessions.
130Sessions are used to cache cryptographic information in a particular driver
131(or associated hardware), so initialization is not needed with every request.
132Consumers of cryptographic services pass a set of
133descriptors that instruct the framework (and the drivers registered
134with it) of the operations that should be applied on the data (more
135than one cryptographic operation can be requested).
136.Pp
137Keying operations are supported as well.
138Unlike the symmetric operators described above,
139these sessionless commands perform mathematical operations using
140input and output parameters.
141.Pp
142Since the consumers may not be associated with a process, drivers may
143not
144.Xr sleep 9 .
145The same holds for the framework.
146Thus, a callback mechanism is used
147to notify a consumer that a request has been completed (the
148callback is specified by the consumer on a per-request basis).
149The callback is invoked by the framework whether the request was
150successfully completed or not.
151An error indication is provided in the latter case.
152A specific error code,
153.Er EAGAIN ,
154is used to indicate that a session number has changed and that the
155request may be re-submitted immediately with the new session number.
156Errors are only returned to the invoking function if not
157enough information to call the callback is available (meaning, there
158was a fatal error in verifying the arguments).
159For session initialization and teardown there is no callback mechanism used.
160.Pp
161The
162.Fn crypto_find_driver
163function may be called to return the specific id of the provided name.
164If the specified driver could not be found, the returned id is -1.
165.Pp
166The
167.Fn crypto_newsession
168routine is called by consumers of cryptographic services (such as the
169.Xr ipsec 4
170stack) that wish to establish a new session with the framework.
171The second argument contains all the necessary information for
172the driver to establish the session.
173The third argument is either a specific driver id, or one or both
174of
175.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_HARDWARE ,
176to select hardware devices,
177or
178.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE ,
179to select software devices.
180If both are specified, a hardware device will be returned
181before a software device will be.
182On success, the value pointed to by the first argument will be the
183Session IDentifier (SID).
184The various fields in the
185.Vt cryptoini
186structure are:
187.Bl -tag -width ".Va cri_next"
188.It Va cri_alg
189Contains an algorithm identifier.
190Currently supported algorithms are:
191.Pp
192.Bl -tag -width ".Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC" -compact
193.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_128_NIST_GMAC
194.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_192_NIST_GMAC
195.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_256_NIST_GMAC
196.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_CBC
197.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_ICM
198.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GCM_16
199.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_NIST_GMAC
200.It Dv CRYPTO_AES_XTS
201.It Dv CRYPTO_ARC4
202.It Dv CRYPTO_BLF_CBC
203.It Dv CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC
204.It Dv CRYPTO_CAST_CBC
205.It Dv CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP
206.It Dv CRYPTO_DES_CBC
207.It Dv CRYPTO_3DES_CBC
208.It Dv CRYPTO_MD5
209.It Dv CRYPTO_MD5_HMAC
210.It Dv CRYPTO_MD5_KPDK
211.It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_HMAC
212.It Dv CRYPTO_NULL_CBC
213.It Dv CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC
214.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1
215.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC
216.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA1_KPDK
217.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_256_HMAC
218.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_384_HMAC
219.It Dv CRYPTO_SHA2_512_HMAC
220.It Dv CRYPTO_SKIPJACK_CBC
221.El
222.It Va cri_klen
223Specifies the length of the key in bits, for variable-size key
224algorithms.
225.It Va cri_mlen
226Specifies how many bytes from the calculated hash should be copied back.
2270 means entire hash.
228.It Va cri_key
229Contains the key to be used with the algorithm.
230.It Va cri_iv
231Contains an explicit initialization vector (IV), if it does not prefix
232the data.
233This field is ignored during initialization
234.Pq Nm crypto_newsession .
235If no IV is explicitly passed (see below on details), a random IV is used
236by the device driver processing the request.
237.It Va cri_next
238Contains a pointer to another
239.Vt cryptoini
240structure.
241Multiple such structures may be linked to establish multi-algorithm sessions
242.Xr ( ipsec 4
243is an example consumer of such a feature).
244.El
245.Pp
246The
247.Vt cryptoini
248structure and its contents will not be modified by the framework (or
249the drivers used).
250Subsequent requests for processing that use the
251SID returned will avoid the cost of re-initializing the hardware (in
252essence, SID acts as an index in the session cache of the driver).
253.Pp
254.Fn crypto_freesession
255is called with the SID returned by
256.Fn crypto_newsession
257to disestablish the session.
258.Pp
259.Fn crypto_dispatch
260is called to process a request.
261The various fields in the
262.Vt cryptop
263structure are:
264.Bl -tag -width ".Va crp_callback"
265.It Va crp_sid
266Contains the SID.
267.It Va crp_ilen
268Indicates the total length in bytes of the buffer to be processed.
269.It Va crp_olen
270On return, contains the total length of the result.
271For symmetric crypto operations, this will be the same as the input length.
272This will be used if the framework needs to allocate a new
273buffer for the result (or for re-formatting the input).
274.It Va crp_callback
275This routine is invoked upon completion of the request, whether
276successful or not.
277It is invoked through the
278.Fn crypto_done
279routine.
280If the request was not successful, an error code is set in the
281.Va crp_etype
282field.
283It is the responsibility of the callback routine to set the appropriate
284.Xr spl 9
285level.
286.It Va crp_etype
287Contains the error type, if any errors were encountered, or zero if
288the request was successfully processed.
289If the
290.Er EAGAIN
291error code is returned, the SID has changed (and has been recorded in the
292.Va crp_sid
293field).
294The consumer should record the new SID and use it in all subsequent requests.
295In this case, the request may be re-submitted immediately.
296This mechanism is used by the framework to perform
297session migration (move a session from one driver to another, because
298of availability, performance, or other considerations).
299.Pp
300Note that this field only makes sense when examined by
301the callback routine specified in
302.Va crp_callback .
303Errors are returned to the invoker of
304.Fn crypto_process
305only when enough information is not present to call the callback
306routine (i.e., if the pointer passed is
307.Dv NULL
308or if no callback routine was specified).
309.It Va crp_flags
310Is a bitmask of flags associated with this request.
311Currently defined flags are:
312.Bl -tag -width ".Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIFSYNC"
313.It Dv CRYPTO_F_IMBUF
314The buffer pointed to by
315.Va crp_buf
316is an mbuf chain.
317.It Dv CRYPTO_F_IOV
318The buffer pointed to by
319.Va crp_buf
320is an
321.Vt uio
322structure.
323.It Dv CRYPTO_F_BATCH
324Batch operation if possible.
325.It Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIMM
326Do callback immediately instead of doing it from a dedicated kernel thread.
327.It Dv CRYPTO_F_DONE
328Operation completed.
329.It Dv CRYPTO_F_CBIFSYNC
330Do callback immediately if operation is synchronous (that the driver
331specified the
332.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_SYNC
333flag).
334.El
335.It Va crp_buf
336Points to the input buffer.
337On return (when the callback is invoked),
338it contains the result of the request.
339The input buffer may be an mbuf
340chain or a contiguous buffer,
341depending on
342.Va crp_flags .
343.It Va crp_opaque
344This is passed through the crypto framework untouched and is
345intended for the invoking application's use.
346.It Va crp_desc
347This is a linked list of descriptors.
348Each descriptor provides
349information about what type of cryptographic operation should be done
350on the input buffer.
351The various fields are:
352.Bl -tag -width ".Va crd_inject"
353.It Va crd_iv
354When the flag
355.Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
356is set, this field contains the IV.
357.It Va crd_key
358When the
359.Dv CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
360flag is set, the
361.Va crd_key
362points to a buffer with encryption or authentication key.
363.It Va crd_alg
364An algorithm to use.
365Must be the same as the one given at newsession time.
366.It Va crd_klen
367The
368.Va crd_key
369key length.
370.It Va crd_skip
371The offset in the input buffer where processing should start.
372.It Va crd_len
373How many bytes, after
374.Va crd_skip ,
375should be processed.
376.It Va crd_inject
377The
378.Va crd_inject
379field specifies an offset in bytes from the beginning of the buffer.
380For encryption algorithms, this may be where the IV will be inserted
381when encrypting or where the IV may be found for
382decryption (subject to
383.Va crd_flags ) .
384For MAC algorithms, this is where the result of the keyed hash will be
385inserted.
386.It Va crd_flags
387The following flags are defined:
388.Bl -tag -width 3n
389.It Dv CRD_F_ENCRYPT
390For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when encryption is required
391(when not set, decryption is performed).
392.It Dv CRD_F_IV_PRESENT
393.\" This flag name has nothing to do w/ it's behavior, fix the name.
394For encryption, if this bit is not set the IV used to encrypt the packet
395will be written at the location pointed to by
396.Va crd_inject .
397The IV length is assumed to be equal to the blocksize of the
398encryption algorithm.
399For encryption, if this bit is set, nothing is done.
400For decryption, this flag has no meaning.
401Applications that do special
402.Dq "IV cooking" ,
403such as the half-IV mode in
404.Xr ipsec 4 ,
405can use this flag to indicate that the IV should not be written on the packet.
406This flag is typically used in conjunction with the
407.Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
408flag.
409.It Dv CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT
410This bit is set when the IV is explicitly
411provided by the consumer in the
412.Va crd_iv
413field.
414Otherwise, for encryption operations the IV is provided for by
415the driver used to perform the operation, whereas for decryption
416operations the offset of the IV is provided by the
417.Va crd_inject
418field.
419This flag is typically used when the IV is calculated
420.Dq "on the fly"
421by the consumer, and does not precede the data (some
422.Xr ipsec 4
423configurations, and the encrypted swap are two such examples).
424.It Dv CRD_F_KEY_EXPLICIT
425For encryption and authentication (MAC) algorithms, this bit is set when the key
426is explicitly provided by the consumer in the
427.Va crd_key
428field for the given operation.
429Otherwise, the key is taken at newsession time from the
430.Va cri_key
431field.
432As calculating the key schedule may take a while, it is recommended that often
433used keys are given their own session.
434.It Dv CRD_F_COMP
435For compression algorithms, this bit is set when compression is required (when
436not set, decompression is performed).
437.El
438.It Va CRD_INI
439This
440.Vt cryptoini
441structure will not be modified by the framework or the device drivers.
442Since this information accompanies every cryptographic
443operation request, drivers may re-initialize state on-demand
444(typically an expensive operation).
445Furthermore, the cryptographic
446framework may re-route requests as a result of full queues or hardware
447failure, as described above.
448.It Va crd_next
449Point to the next descriptor.
450Linked operations are useful in protocols such as
451.Xr ipsec 4 ,
452where multiple cryptographic transforms may be applied on the same
453block of data.
454.El
455.El
456.Pp
457.Fn crypto_getreq
458allocates a
459.Vt cryptop
460structure with a linked list of as many
461.Vt cryptodesc
462structures as were specified in the argument passed to it.
463.Pp
464.Fn crypto_freereq
465deallocates a structure
466.Vt cryptop
467and any
468.Vt cryptodesc
469structures linked to it.
470Note that it is the responsibility of the
471callback routine to do the necessary cleanups associated with the
472opaque field in the
473.Vt cryptop
474structure.
475.Pp
476.Fn crypto_kdispatch
477is called to perform a keying operation.
478The various fields in the
479.Vt cryptkop
480structure are:
481.Bl -tag -width ".Va krp_callback"
482.It Va krp_op
483Operation code, such as
484.Dv CRK_MOD_EXP .
485.It Va krp_status
486Return code.
487This
488.Va errno Ns -style
489variable indicates whether lower level reasons
490for operation failure.
491.It Va krp_iparams
492Number if input parameters to the specified operation.
493Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
494.It Va krp_oparams
495Number if output parameters from the specified operation.
496Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such parameters.
497.It Va krp_kvp
498An array of kernel memory blocks containing the parameters.
499.It Va krp_hid
500Identifier specifying which low-level driver is being used.
501.It Va krp_callback
502Callback called on completion of a keying operation.
503.El
504.Sh DRIVER-SIDE API
505The
506.Fn crypto_get_driverid ,
507.Fn crypto_register ,
508.Fn crypto_kregister ,
509.Fn crypto_unregister ,
510.Fn crypto_unblock ,
511and
512.Fn crypto_done
513routines are used by drivers that provide support for cryptographic
514primitives to register and unregister with the kernel crypto services
515framework.
516.Pp
517Drivers must first use the
518.Fn crypto_get_driverid
519function to acquire a driver identifier, specifying the
520.Fa flags
521as an argument.
522One of
523.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE
524or
525.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_HARDWARE
526must be specified.
527The
528.Dv CRYPTOCAP_F_SYNC
529may also be specified, and should be specified if the driver does all of
530it's operations synchronously.
531.Pp
532For each algorithm the driver supports, it must then call
533.Fn crypto_register .
534The first two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers.
535The next two arguments specify the largest possible operator length (in bits,
536important for public key operations) and flags for this algorithm.
537The last four arguments must be provided in the first call to
538.Fn crypto_register
539and are ignored in all subsequent calls.
540They are pointers to three
541driver-provided functions that the framework may call to establish new
542cryptographic context with the driver, free already established
543context, and ask for a request to be processed (encrypt, decrypt,
544etc.); and an opaque parameter to pass when calling each of these routines.
545.Pp
546.Fn crypto_unregister
547is called by drivers that wish to withdraw support for an algorithm.
548The two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers, respectively.
549Typically, drivers for
550PCMCIA
551crypto cards that are being ejected will invoke this routine for all
552algorithms supported by the card.
553.Fn crypto_unregister_all
554will unregister all algorithms registered by a driver
555and the driver will be disabled (no new sessions will be allocated on
556that driver, and any existing sessions will be migrated to other
557drivers).
558The same will be done if all algorithms associated with a driver are
559unregistered one by one.
560After a call to
561.Fn crypto_unregister_all
562there will be no threads in either the newsession or freesession function
563of the driver.
564.Pp
565The calling convention for the three driver-supplied routines are:
566.Pp
567.Bl -item -compact
568.It
569.Ft int
570.Fn \*[lp]*newsession\*[rp] "device_t" "uint32_t *" "struct cryptoini *" ;
571.It
572.Ft int
573.Fn \*[lp]*freesession\*[rp] "device_t" "uint64_t" ;
574.It
575.Ft int
576.Fn \*[lp]*process\*[rp] "device_t" "struct cryptop *" "int" ;
577.It
578.Ft int
579.Fn \*[lp]*kprocess\*[rp] "device_t" "struct cryptkop *" "int" ;
580.El
581.Pp
582On invocation, the first argument to
583all routines is the
584.Fa device_t
585that was provided to
586.Fn crypto_get_driverid .
587The second argument to
588.Fn newsession
589contains the driver identifier obtained via
590.Fn crypto_get_driverid .
591On successful return, it should contain a driver-specific session
592identifier.
593The third argument is identical to that of
594.Fn crypto_newsession .
595.Pp
596The
597.Fn freesession
598routine takes as arguments the opaque data value and the SID
599(which is the concatenation of the
600driver identifier and the driver-specific session identifier).
601It should clear any context associated with the session (clear hardware
602registers, memory, etc.).
603.Pp
604The
605.Fn process
606routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto processing.
607This routine must not block or sleep, but should queue the request and return
608immediately or process the request to completion.
609In case of an unrecoverable error, the error indication must be placed in the
610.Va crp_etype
611field of the
612.Vt cryptop
613structure.
614When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the
615.Fn process
616routine must invoke
617.Fn crypto_done .
618Session migration may be performed, as mentioned previously.
619.Pp
620In case of a temporary resource exhaustion, the
621.Fn process
622routine may return
623.Er ERESTART
624in which case the crypto services will requeue the request, mark the driver
625as
626.Dq blocked ,
627and stop submitting requests for processing.
628The driver is then responsible for notifying the crypto services
629when it is again able to process requests through the
630.Fn crypto_unblock
631routine.
632This simple flow control mechanism should only be used for short-lived
633resource exhaustion as it causes operations to be queued in the crypto
634layer.
635Doing so is preferable to returning an error in such cases as
636it can cause network protocols to degrade performance by treating the
637failure much like a lost packet.
638.Pp
639The
640.Fn kprocess
641routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto key processing.
642This routine must not block, but should queue the request and return
643immediately.
644Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked.
645In case of an unrecoverable error, the error indication must be placed in the
646.Va krp_status
647field of the
648.Vt cryptkop
649structure.
650When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the
651.Fn kprocess
652routine should invoked
653.Fn crypto_kdone .
654.Sh RETURN VALUES
655.Fn crypto_register ,
656.Fn crypto_kregister ,
657.Fn crypto_unregister ,
658.Fn crypto_newsession ,
659.Fn crypto_freesession ,
660and
661.Fn crypto_unblock
662return 0 on success, or an error code on failure.
663.Fn crypto_get_driverid
664returns a non-negative value on error, and \-1 on failure.
665.Fn crypto_getreq
666returns a pointer to a
667.Vt cryptop
668structure and
669.Dv NULL
670on failure.
671.Fn crypto_dispatch
672returns
673.Er EINVAL
674if its argument or the callback function was
675.Dv NULL ,
676and 0 otherwise.
677The callback is provided with an error code in case of failure, in the
678.Va crp_etype
679field.
680.Sh FILES
681.Bl -tag -width ".Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c"
682.It Pa sys/opencrypto/crypto.c
683most of the framework code
684.El
685.Sh SEE ALSO
686.Xr crypto 4 ,
687.Xr ipsec 4 ,
688.Xr crypto 7 ,
689.Xr malloc 9 ,
690.Xr sleep 9
691.Sh HISTORY
692The cryptographic framework first appeared in
693.Ox 2.7
694and was written by
695.An Angelos D. Keromytis Aq Mt angelos@openbsd.org .
696.Sh BUGS
697The framework currently assumes that all the algorithms in a
698.Fn crypto_newsession
699operation must be available by the same driver.
700If that is not the case, session initialization will fail.
701.Pp
702The framework also needs a mechanism for determining which driver is
703best for a specific set of algorithms associated with a session.
704Some type of benchmarking is in order here.
705.Pp
706Multiple instances of the same algorithm in the same session are not
707supported.
708Note that 3DES is considered one algorithm (and not three
709instances of DES).
710Thus, 3DES and DES could be mixed in the same request.
711