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crypto: drbg - ensure drbg hmac sha512 is used in FIPS selftests
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Update code comment, self test & healthcheck to use HMAC SHA512,
instead of HMAC SHA256. These changes are in dead-code, or FIPS
enabled code-paths only and have not effect on usual kernel builds.

On systems booting in FIPS mode that has the effect of switch sanity
selftest to HMAC sha512 based (which has been the default DRBG).

This patch updates code from 9b7b946 ("crypto: DRBG - switch to
HMAC SHA512 DRBG as default DRBG"), but is not interesting to
cherry-pick for stable updates, because it doesn't affect regular
builds, nor has any tangible effect on FIPS certifcation.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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xnox authored and herbertx committed Nov 17, 2023
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions crypto/drbg.c
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* as stdrng. Each DRBG receives an increasing cra_priority values the later
* they are defined in this array (see drbg_fill_array).
*
* HMAC DRBGs are favored over Hash DRBGs over CTR DRBGs, and
* the SHA256 / AES 256 over other ciphers. Thus, the favored
* DRBGs are the latest entries in this array.
* HMAC DRBGs are favored over Hash DRBGs over CTR DRBGs, and the
* HMAC-SHA512 / SHA256 / AES 256 over other ciphers. Thus, the
* favored DRBGs are the latest entries in this array.
*/
static const struct drbg_core drbg_cores[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO_DRBG_CTR
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int err = 0;
pr_devel("DRBG: start to perform self test\n");
if (drbg->core->flags & DRBG_HMAC)
err = alg_test("drbg_pr_hmac_sha256",
"drbg_pr_hmac_sha256", 0, 0);
err = alg_test("drbg_pr_hmac_sha512",
"drbg_pr_hmac_sha512", 0, 0);
else if (drbg->core->flags & DRBG_CTR)
err = alg_test("drbg_pr_ctr_aes256",
"drbg_pr_ctr_aes256", 0, 0);
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drbg_convert_tfm_core("drbg_nopr_sha256", &coreref, &pr);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO_DRBG_HMAC
drbg_convert_tfm_core("drbg_nopr_hmac_sha256", &coreref, &pr);
drbg_convert_tfm_core("drbg_nopr_hmac_sha512", &coreref, &pr);
#endif

drbg = kzalloc(sizeof(struct drbg_state), GFP_KERNEL);
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