[PATCH 1/2] crypto: hkdf: add hkdf_expand_label()

hare at kernel.org hare at kernel.org
Wed Aug 20 02:12:10 PDT 2025


From: Chris Leech <cleech at redhat.com>

Provide an implementation of RFC 8446 (TLS 1.3) HKDF-Expand-Label

Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <cleech at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>
---
 crypto/hkdf.c         | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/crypto/hkdf.h |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/hkdf.c b/crypto/hkdf.c
index 82d1b32ca6ce..465bad6e6c93 100644
--- a/crypto/hkdf.c
+++ b/crypto/hkdf.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <crypto/sha2.h>
 #include <crypto/hkdf.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
 
 /*
  * HKDF consists of two steps:
@@ -129,6 +130,60 @@ int hkdf_expand(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hkdf_expand);
 
+/**
+ * hkdf_expand_label - HKDF-Expand-Label (RFC 8846 section 7.1)
+ * @hmac_tfm: hash context keyed with pseudorandom key
+ * @label: ASCII label without "tls13 " prefix
+ * @label_len: length of @label
+ * @context: context bytes
+ * @contextlen: length of @context
+ * @okm: output keying material
+ * @okmlen: length of @okm
+ *
+ * Build the TLS 1.3 HkdfLabel structure and invoke hkdf_expand().
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success with output keying material stored in @okm,
+ * or a negative errno value otherwise.
+ */
+int hkdf_expand_label(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm,
+		const u8 *label, unsigned int labellen,
+		const u8 *context, unsigned int contextlen,
+		u8 *okm, unsigned int okmlen)
+{
+	int err;
+	u8 *info;
+	unsigned int infolen;
+	static const char tls13_prefix[] = "tls13 ";
+	unsigned int prefixlen = sizeof(tls13_prefix) - 1; /* exclude NUL */
+
+	if (WARN_ON(labellen > (255 - prefixlen)))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (WARN_ON(contextlen > 255))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	infolen = 2 + (1 + prefixlen + labellen) + (1 + contextlen);
+	info = kzalloc(infolen, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!info)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	/* HkdfLabel.Length */
+	put_unaligned_be16(okmlen, info);
+
+	/* HkdfLabel.Label */
+	info[2] = prefixlen + labellen;
+	memcpy(info + 3, tls13_prefix, prefixlen);
+	memcpy(info + 3 + prefixlen, label, labellen);
+
+	/* HkdfLabel.Context */
+	info[3 + prefixlen + labellen] = contextlen;
+	memcpy(info + 4 + prefixlen + labellen, context, contextlen);
+
+	err = hkdf_expand(hmac_tfm, info, infolen, okm, okmlen);
+	kfree_sensitive(info);
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hkdf_expand_label);
+
 struct hkdf_testvec {
 	const char *test;
 	const u8 *ikm;
diff --git a/include/crypto/hkdf.h b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
index 6a9678f508f5..5e75d17a58ab 100644
--- a/include/crypto/hkdf.h
+++ b/include/crypto/hkdf.h
@@ -17,4 +17,8 @@ int hkdf_extract(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm, const u8 *ikm,
 int hkdf_expand(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm,
 		const u8 *info, unsigned int infolen,
 		u8 *okm, unsigned int okmlen);
+int hkdf_expand_label(struct crypto_shash *hmac_tfm,
+		const u8 *label, unsigned int labellen,
+		const u8 *context, unsigned int contextlen,
+		u8 *okm, unsigned int okmlen);
 #endif
-- 
2.43.0




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