[PATCH 25/26] ipv6: Switch to higher-level SHA-1 functions

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Sat Jul 12 16:23:16 PDT 2025


There's now a proper SHA-1 API that follows the usual conventions for
hash function APIs: sha1_init(), sha1_update(), sha1_final(), sha1().
The only remaining user of the older low-level SHA-1 API,
sha1_init_raw() and sha1_transform(), is ipv6_generate_stable_address().
I'd like to remove this older API, which is too low-level.

Unfortunately, ipv6_generate_stable_address() does in fact skip the
SHA-1 finalization for some reason.  So the values it computes are not
standard SHA-1 values, and it sort of does want the low-level API.

Still, it's still possible to use the higher-level functions sha1_init()
and sha1_update() to get the same result, provided that the resulting
state is used directly, skipping sha1_final().

So, let's do that instead.  This will allow removing the low-level API.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index d0e5b94c10af4..a4d47044f4557 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3336,12 +3336,11 @@ static bool ipv6_reserved_interfaceid(struct in6_addr address)
 static int ipv6_generate_stable_address(struct in6_addr *address,
 					u8 dad_count,
 					const struct inet6_dev *idev)
 {
 	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
-	static __u32 digest[SHA1_DIGEST_WORDS];
-	static __u32 workspace[SHA1_WORKSPACE_WORDS];
+	static struct sha1_ctx sha_ctx;
 
 	static union {
 		char __data[SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE];
 		struct {
 			struct in6_addr secret;
@@ -3353,36 +3352,40 @@ static int ipv6_generate_stable_address(struct in6_addr *address,
 
 	struct in6_addr secret;
 	struct in6_addr temp;
 	struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev);
 
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(data.__data) != sizeof(data));
-
 	if (idev->cnf.stable_secret.initialized)
 		secret = idev->cnf.stable_secret.secret;
 	else if (net->ipv6.devconf_dflt->stable_secret.initialized)
 		secret = net->ipv6.devconf_dflt->stable_secret.secret;
 	else
 		return -1;
 
 retry:
 	spin_lock_bh(&lock);
 
-	sha1_init_raw(digest);
+	sha1_init(&sha_ctx);
+
 	memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
-	memset(workspace, 0, sizeof(workspace));
 	memcpy(data.hwaddr, idev->dev->perm_addr, idev->dev->addr_len);
 	data.prefix[0] = address->s6_addr32[0];
 	data.prefix[1] = address->s6_addr32[1];
 	data.secret = secret;
 	data.dad_count = dad_count;
+	sha1_update(&sha_ctx, (const u8 *)&data, sizeof(data));
 
-	sha1_transform(digest, data.__data, workspace);
-
+	/*
+	 * Note that the SHA-1 finalization is omitted here, and the digest is
+	 * pulled directly from the internal SHA-1 state (making it incompatible
+	 * with standard SHA-1).  Unusual, but technically okay since the data
+	 * length is fixed and is a multiple of the SHA-1 block size.
+	 */
+	static_assert(sizeof(data) % SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE == 0);
 	temp = *address;
-	temp.s6_addr32[2] = (__force __be32)digest[0];
-	temp.s6_addr32[3] = (__force __be32)digest[1];
+	temp.s6_addr32[2] = (__force __be32)sha_ctx.state.h[0];
+	temp.s6_addr32[3] = (__force __be32)sha_ctx.state.h[1];
 
 	spin_unlock_bh(&lock);
 
 	if (ipv6_reserved_interfaceid(temp)) {
 		dad_count++;
-- 
2.50.1




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