[PATCH v2 0/6] Optimize fsverity using 2-way interleaved SHA-256 hashing

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Mon Sep 15 09:08:13 PDT 2025


This series is targeting libcrypto-next.  It can also be retrieved from:

    git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git sha256_finup_2x-v2

This series adds support for 2-way interleaved SHA-256 hashing to
lib/crypto/, implements it for arm64 and x86_64, and makes fsverity use
it.  This significantly improves fsverity performance on many CPUs.

Later patches will make dm-verity use this optimization as well.

Changed in v2:
- Made the new arm64 assembly compatible with CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y.
- Omitted sha256_finup_2x() from pre-boot environments.
- Made alloc_guarded_buf() assert that the allocation succeeded.
- Minor tweaks to comments and whitespace.

Eric Biggers (6):
  lib/crypto: sha256: Add support for 2-way interleaved hashing
  lib/crypto: arm64/sha256: Add support for 2-way interleaved hashing
  lib/crypto: x86/sha256: Add support for 2-way interleaved hashing
  lib/crypto: tests: Add tests and benchmark for sha256_finup_2x()
  fsverity: Remove inode parameter from fsverity_hash_block()
  fsverity: Use 2-way interleaved SHA-256 hashing when supported

 fs/verity/enable.c              |  12 +-
 fs/verity/fsverity_private.h    |   2 +-
 fs/verity/hash_algs.c           |   3 +-
 fs/verity/verify.c              | 175 ++++++++++++---
 include/crypto/sha2.h           |  28 +++
 lib/crypto/arm64/sha256-ce.S    | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 lib/crypto/arm64/sha256.h       |  37 ++++
 lib/crypto/sha256.c             |  71 +++++-
 lib/crypto/tests/sha256_kunit.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++
 lib/crypto/x86/sha256-ni-asm.S  | 368 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/crypto/x86/sha256.h         |  39 ++++
 11 files changed, 1147 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

base-commit: 54e7bb6ade8acd3fb1c486c9f3e2c0dfdc18f84e
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2.51.0




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