openwrt/package/libs/openssl/patches/500-e_devcrypto-default-to-not-use-digests-in-engine.patch
Eneas U de Queiroz 2407b1edcc openssl: disable digests by default, misc fixes
Openssh uses digest contexts across forks, which is not supported by the
/dev/crypto engine.  The speed of digests is usually not worth enabling
them anyway.  This changes the default of the DIGESTS option to NONE, so
the user still has the option to enable them.

Added another patch related to the use of encryption contexts across
forks, that ignores a failure to close a previous open session when
reinitializing a context, instead of failing the reinitialization.

Added a link to the Cryptographic Hardware Accelerators document to the
engine pacakges description, to provide more detailed instructions to
configure the engines.

Revert the removal of the OPENSSL_ENGINE_CRYPTO symbol, currently used
by openssh.  There is an open PR to update openssh; when merged, this
symbol can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Eneas U de Queiroz <cote2004-github@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Dedecker <dedeckeh@gmail.com> [refresh patches]
2019-03-12 18:26:59 +01:00

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From 5d3be6bc8ed7d73ab2c4d389fb0f0a03dacd04b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eneas U de Queiroz <cote2004-github@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:29:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] e_devcrypto: default to not use digests in engine
Digests are almost always slower when using /dev/crypto because of the
cost of the context switches. Only for large blocks it is worth it.
Also, when forking, the open context structures are duplicated, but the
internal kernel sessions are still shared between forks, which means an
update/close operation in one fork affects all processes using that
session.
This affects digests, especially for HMAC, where the session with the
key hash is used as a source for subsequent operations. At least one
popular application does this across a fork. Disabling digests by
default will mitigate the problem, while still allowing the user to
turn them on if it is safe and fast enough.
Signed-off-by: Eneas U de Queiroz <cote2004-github@yahoo.com>
--- a/engines/e_devcrypto.c
+++ b/engines/e_devcrypto.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ static void prepare_digest_methods(void)
for (i = 0, known_digest_nids_amount = 0; i < OSSL_NELEM(digest_data);
i++) {
- selected_digests[i] = 1;
+ selected_digests[i] = 0;
/*
* Check that the digest is usable
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static const ENGINE_CMD_DEFN devcrypto_c
#ifdef IMPLEMENT_DIGEST
{DEVCRYPTO_CMD_DIGESTS,
"DIGESTS",
- "either ALL, NONE, or a comma-separated list of digests to enable [default=ALL]",
+ "either ALL, NONE, or a comma-separated list of digests to enable [default=NONE]",
ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_STRING},
#endif