[PATCH] arm64: crypto: Don't allow v8.2 extensions to be used with BROKEN_GAS_INST

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Mar 2 08:54:38 PST 2022


We support building the kernel with archaic versions of binutils which
had some confusion regarding how instructions should be encoded for .inst
which we work around with the __emit_inst() macro. Unfortunately we have
not consistently used this macro, one of the places where it's missed being
the macros that manually encode v8.2 crypto instructions. This means that
kernels built with such toolchains have never supported use of the affected
instructions correctly.

Since these toolchains are very old (some idle research suggested 2015
era) it seems more sensible to just refuse to build v8.2 crypto support
with them, in the unlikely event that someone has a need to use such a
toolchain to build a kernel which will run on a system with v8.2 crypto
support they can always fix this properly but it seems more likely that
we will deprecate support for these toolchains and remove __emit_inst()
before that happens.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig
index 2a965aa0188d..90dd62d46739 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -32,12 +32,14 @@ config CRYPTO_SHA2_ARM64_CE
 config CRYPTO_SHA512_ARM64_CE
 	tristate "SHA-384/SHA-512 digest algorithm (ARMv8 Crypto Extensions)"
 	depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON
+	depends on !BROKEN_GAS_INST
 	select CRYPTO_HASH
 	select CRYPTO_SHA512_ARM64
 
 config CRYPTO_SHA3_ARM64
 	tristate "SHA3 digest algorithm (ARMv8.2 Crypto Extensions)"
 	depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON
+	depends on !BROKEN_GAS_INST
 	select CRYPTO_HASH
 	select CRYPTO_SHA3
 
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ config CRYPTO_SM3_ARM64_CE
 config CRYPTO_SM4_ARM64_CE
 	tristate "SM4 symmetric cipher (ARMv8.2 Crypto Extensions)"
 	depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON
+	depends on !BROKEN_GAS_INST
 	select CRYPTO_ALGAPI
 	select CRYPTO_LIB_SM4
 
-- 
2.30.2




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