Commit 3dee94d
crypto: af_alg - Drop support for off-CPU cryptography
AF_ALG is deprecated and exposed to unprivileged userspace. Only
use the least buggy algorithm implementations: the pure software ones.
This removes one of the main advantages of AF_ALG, which is the
ability to use it with off-CPU accelerators. However, using off-CPU
accelerators has huge overheads, both in performance and attack surface.
I have yet to see real-world, performance-critical workloads where using
an accelerator via AF_ALG is actually a win over doing cryptography in
userspace.
If using an off-CPU accelerator really does turn out to be a win, a new
API should be developed that is actually a good fit for it.
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
[WangYuli: Rewirte userspace-if.rst because of conflicts]
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git/commit/?id=7524070f26d8d347c26787dc297fb844baa26abf
Signed-off-by: WangYuli <wangyl5933@chinaunicom.cn>1 parent c3f8f6f commit 3dee94d
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