[PATCH 15/15] wifi: mac80211: Use AES-CMAC library in aes_s2v()
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Feb 19 03:01:14 PST 2026
On Wed, 2026-02-18 at 13:35 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Now that AES-CMAC has a library API, convert aes_s2v() to use it instead
> of a "cmac(aes)" crypto_shash. The result is faster and simpler code.
>
> It's also more reliable, since with the library the only step that can
> fail is preparing the key. In contrast, crypto_shash_digest(),
> crypto_shash_init(), crypto_shash_update(), and crypto_shash_final()
> could all fail and return an errno value. aes_s2v() ignored these
> errors, which was a bug. So that bug is fixed as well.
>
> As part of this, change the prototype of aes_s2v() to take the raw key
> directly instead of a prepared key. Its only two callers prepare a key
> for each call, so it might as well be done directly in aes_s2v().
>
> Since this removes the last dependency on the "cmac(aes)" crypto_shash
> from mac80211, also remove the 'select CRYPTO_CMAC'.
>
> -static int aes_s2v(struct crypto_shash *tfm,
> +static int aes_s2v(const u8 *in_key, size_t key_len,
> size_t num_elem, const u8 *addr[], size_t len[], u8 *v)
> {
> u8 d[AES_BLOCK_SIZE], tmp[AES_BLOCK_SIZE] = {};
> - SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(desc, tfm);
> + struct aes_cmac_key key;
> + struct aes_cmac_ctx ctx;
> size_t i;
> + int res;
>
> - desc->tfm = tfm;
> + res = aes_cmac_preparekey(&key, in_key, key_len);
> + if (res)
> + return res;
Same here, maybe, technically, but also doesn't matter.
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
johannes
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