OPENCRYPTO(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual OPENCRYPTO(9)
NAME
opencrypto, crypto_get_driverid, crypto_register, crypto_kregister, crypto_unregister, crypto_done, crypto_kdone, crypto_newsession,
crypto_freesession, crypto_dispatch, crypto_kdispatch, crypto_getreq, crypto_freereq -- API for cryptographic services in the kernel
SYNOPSIS
#include <opencrypto/cryptodev.h>
int32_t
crypto_get_driverid(u_int32_t);
int
crypto_register(u_int32_t, int, u_int16_t, u_int32_t, int (*)(void *, u_int32_t *, struct cryptoini *), int (*)(void *, u_int32_t *),
int (*)(u_int64_t), int (*)(struct cryptop *), void *);
int
crypto_kregister(u_int32_t, int, u_int32_t, int (*)(void *, struct cryptkop *, int), void *);
int
crypto_unregister(u_int32_t, int);
void
crypto_done(struct cryptop *);
void
crypto_kdone(struct cryptkop *);
int
crypto_newsession(u_int64_t *, struct cryptoini *, int);
int
crypto_freesession(u_int64_t);
int
crypto_dispatch(struct cryptop *);
int
crypto_kdispatch(struct cryptkop *);
struct cryptop *
crypto_getreq(int);
void
crypto_freereq(struct cryptop *);
#define EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN 16
struct cryptoini {
int cri_alg;
int cri_klen;
int cri_rnd;
void *cri_key;
u_int8_t cri_iv[EALG_MAX_BLOCK_LEN];
struct cryptoini *cri_next;
};
struct cryptodesc {
int crd_skip;
int crd_len;
int crd_inject;
int crd_flags;
struct cryptoini CRD_INI;
struct cryptodesc *crd_next;
};
struct cryptop {
TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptop) crp_next;
u_int64_t crp_sid;
int crp_ilen;
int crp_olen;
int crp_etype;
int crp_flags;
void *crp_buf;
void *crp_opaque;
struct cryptodesc *crp_desc;
int (*crp_callback)(struct cryptop *);
void *crp_mac;
};
struct crparam {
void *crp_p;
u_int crp_nbits;
};
#define CRK_MAXPARAM 8
struct cryptkop {
TAILQ_ENTRY(cryptkop) krp_next;
u_int krp_op; /* i.e. CRK_MOD_EXP or other */
u_int krp_status; /* return status */
u_short krp_iparams; /* # of input parameters */
u_short krp_oparams; /* # of output parameters */
u_int32_t krp_hid;
struct crparam krp_param[CRK_MAXPARAM]; /* kvm */
int (*krp_callback)(struct cryptkop *);
};
DESCRIPTION
opencrypto is a framework for drivers of cryptographic hardware to register with the kernel so ``consumers'' (other kernel subsystems, and
eventually users through an appropriate device) are able to make use of it. Drivers register with the framework the algorithms they support,
and provide entry points (functions) the framework may call to establish, use, and tear down sessions. Sessions are used to cache crypto-
graphic information in a particular driver (or associated hardware), so initialization is not needed with every request. Consumers of cryp-
tographic services pass a set of descriptors that instruct the framework (and the drivers registered with it) of the operations that should
be applied on the data (more than one cryptographic operation can be requested).
Keying operations are supported as well. Unlike the symmetric operators described above, these sessionless commands perform mathematical
operations using input and output parameters.
Since the consumers may not be associated with a process, drivers may not use condition variables: condvar(9). The same holds for the frame-
work. Thus, a callback mechanism is used to notify a consumer that a request has been completed (the callback is specified by the consumer
on an per-request basis). The callback is invoked by the framework whether the request was successfully completed or not. An error indica-
tion is provided in the latter case. A specific error code, EAGAIN, is used to indicate that a session number has changed and that the
request may be re-submitted immediately with the new session number. Errors are only returned to the invoking function if not enough infor-
mation to call the callback is available (meaning, there was a fatal error in verifying the arguments). No callback mechanism is used for
session initialization and teardown.
The crypto_newsession() routine is called by consumers of cryptographic services (such as the ipsec(4) stack) that wish to establish a new
session with the framework. On success, the first argument will contain the Session Identifier (SID). The second argument contains all the
necessary information for the driver to establish the session. The third argument indicates whether a hardware driver should be used (1) or
not (0). The various fields in the cryptoini structure are:
cri_alg Contains an algorithm identifier. Currently supported algorithms are:
CRYPTO_DES_CBC
CRYPTO_3DES_CBC
CRYPTO_BLF_CBC
CRYPTO_CAST_CBC
CRYPTO_CAMELLIA_CBC
CRYPTO_SKIPJACK_CBC
CRYPTO_ARC4
CRYPTO_AES_CBC
CRYPTO_AES_CTR
CRYPTO_AES_GCM_16
CRYPTO_AES_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_128_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_192_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_256_GMAC
CRYPTO_AES_XCBC_MAC_96
CRYPTO_MD5
CRYPTO_MD5_HMAC
CRYPTO_MD5_HMAC_96
CRYPTO_MD5_KPDK
CRYPTO_NULL_CBC
CRYPTO_NULL_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA1
CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA1_HMAC_96
CRYPTO_SHA1_KPDK
CRYPTO_SHA2_256_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA2_384_HMAC
CRYPTO_SHA2_512_HMAC
CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC
CRYPTO_RIPEMD160_HMAC_96
CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP
CRYPTO_DEFLATE_COMP_NOGROW
CRYPTO_GZIP_COMP
cri_klen Specifies the length of the key in bits, for variable-size key algorithms.
cri_rnd Specifies the number of rounds to be used with the algorithm, for variable-round algorithms.
cri_key Contains the key to be used with the algorithm.
cri_iv Contains an explicit initialization vector (IV), if it does not prefix the data. This field is ignored during initialization.
If no IV is explicitly passed (see below on details), a random IV is used by the device driver processing the request.
cri_next Contains a pointer to another cryptoini structure. Multiple such structures may be linked to establish multi-algorithm ses-
sions (ipsec(4) is an example consumer of such a feature).
The cryptoini structure and its contents will not be modified by the framework (or the drivers used). Subsequent requests for processing
that use the SID returned will avoid the cost of re-initializing the hardware (in essence, SID acts as an index in the session cache of the
driver).
crypto_freesession() is called with the SID returned by crypto_newsession() to disestablish the session.
crypto_dispatch() is called to process a request. The various fields in the cryptop structure are:
crp_sid Contains the SID.
crp_ilen Indicates the total length in bytes of the buffer to be processed.
crp_olen On return, contains the length of the result, not including crd_skip. For symmetric crypto operations, this will be the same
as the input length.
crp_alloctype
Indicates the type of buffer, as used in the kernel malloc(9) routine. This will be used if the framework needs to allocate a
new buffer for the result (or for re-formatting the input).
crp_callback This routine is invoked upon completion of the request, whether successful or not. It is invoked through the crypto_done()
routine. If the request was not successful, an error code is set in the crp_etype field. It is the responsibility of the
callback routine to set the appropriate spl(9) level.
crp_etype Contains the error type, if any errors were encountered, or zero if the request was successfully processed. If the EAGAIN
error code is returned, the SID has changed (and has been recorded in the crp_sid field). The consumer should record the new
SID and use it in all subsequent requests. In this case, the request may be re-submitted immediately. This mechanism is used
by the framework to perform session migration (move a session from one driver to another, because of availability, performance,
or other considerations).
Note that this field only makes sense when examined by the callback routine specified in crp_callback. Errors are returned to
the invoker of crypto_process() only when enough information is not present to call the callback routine (i.e., if the pointer
passed is NULL or if no callback routine was specified).
crp_flags Is a bitmask of flags associated with this request. Currently defined flags are:
CRYPTO_F_IMBUF The buffer pointed to by crp_buf is an mbuf chain.
crp_buf Points to the input buffer. On return (when the callback is invoked), it contains the result of the request. The input buffer
may be an mbuf chain or a contiguous buffer (of a type identified by crp_alloctype), depending on crp_flags.
crp_opaque This is passed through the crypto framework untouched and is intended for the invoking application's use.
crp_desc This is a linked list of descriptors. Each descriptor provides information about what type of cryptographic operation should
be done on the input buffer. The various fields are:
crd_skip The offset in the input buffer where processing should start.
crd_len How many bytes, after crd_skip, should be processed.
crd_inject Offset from the beginning of the buffer to insert any results. For encryption algorithms, this is where the ini-
tialization vector (IV) will be inserted when encrypting or where it can be found when decrypting (subject to
crd_flags). For MAC algorithms, this is where the result of the keyed hash will be inserted.
crd_flags For adjusting general operation from userland, the following flags are defined:
CRD_F_ENCRYPT For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when encryption is required (when not set, decryption
is performed).
CRD_F_IV_PRESENT For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when the IV already precedes the data, so the
crd_inject value will be ignored and no IV will be written in the buffer. Otherwise, the IV
used to encrypt the packet will be written at the location pointed to by crd_inject. Some
applications that do special ``IV cooking'', such as the half-IV mode in ipsec(4), can use this
flag to indicate that the IV should not be written on the packet. This flag is typically used
in conjunction with the CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT flag.
CRD_F_IV_EXPLICIT For encryption algorithms, this bit is set when the IV is explicitly provided by the consumer in
the crd_iv fields. Otherwise, for encryption operations the IV is provided for by the driver
used to perform the operation, whereas for decryption operations it is pointed to by the
crd_inject field. This flag is typically used when the IV is calculated ``on the fly'' by the
consumer, and does not precede the data (some ipsec(4) configurations, and the encrypted swap
are two such examples).
CRD_F_COMP For compression algorithms, this bit is set when compression is required (when not set, decom-
pression is performed).
CRD_INI This cryptoini structure will not be modified by the framework or the device drivers. Since this information
accompanies every cryptographic operation request, drivers may re-initialize state on-demand (typically an expen-
sive operation). Furthermore, the cryptographic framework may re-route requests as a result of full queues or
hardware failure, as described above.
crd_next Point to the next descriptor. Linked operations are useful in protocols such as ipsec(4), where multiple crypto-
graphic transforms may be applied on the same block of data.
crypto_getreq() allocates a cryptop structure with a linked list of as many cryptodesc structures as were specified in the argument passed to
it.
crypto_freereq() deallocates a structure cryptop and any cryptodesc structures linked to it. Note that it is the responsibility of the call-
back routine to do the necessary cleanups associated with the opaque field in the cryptop structure.
crypto_kdispatch() is called to perform a keying operation. The various fields in the crytokop structure are:
krp_op Operation code, such as CRK_MOD_EXP.
krp_status Return code. This errno-style variable indicates whether there were lower level reasons for operation failure.
krp_iparams Number of input parameters to the specified operation. Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such
parameters.
krp_oparams Number of output parameters from the specified operation. Note that each operation has a (typically hardwired) number of such
parameters.
krp_kvp An array of kernel memory blocks containing the parameters.
krp_hid Identifier specifying which low-level driver is being used.
krp_callback Callback called on completion of a keying operation.
The following sysctl entries exist to adjust the behaviour of the system from userland:
kern.usercrypto Allow (1) or forbid (0) userland access to /dev/crypto.
kern.userasymcrypto Allow (1) or forbid (0) userland access to do asymmetric crypto requests.
kern.cryptodevallowsoft Enable/disable access to hardware versus software operations:
< 0 Force userlevel requests to use software operations, always.
= 0 Use hardware if present, grant userlevel requests for non-accelerated operations (handling the latter in soft-
ware).
> 0 Allow user requests only for operations which are hardware-accelerated.
DRIVER-SIDE API
The crypto_get_driverid(), crypto_register(), crypto_kregister(), crypto_unregister(), and crypto_done() routines are used by drivers that
provide support for cryptographic primitives to register and unregister with the kernel crypto services framework. Drivers must first use
the crypto_get_driverid() function to acquire a driver identifier, specifying the flags as an argument (normally 0, but software-only drivers
should specify CRYPTOCAP_F_SOFTWARE). For each algorithm the driver supports, it must then call crypto_register(). The first argument is
the driver identifier. The second argument is an array of CRYPTO_ALGORITHM_MAX + 1 elements, indicating which algorithms are supported. The
last three arguments are pointers to three driver-provided functions that the framework may call to establish new cryptographic context with
the driver, free already established context, and ask for a request to be processed (encrypt, decrypt, etc.) crypto_unregister() is called
by drivers that wish to withdraw support for an algorithm. The two arguments are the driver and algorithm identifiers, respectively. Typi-
cally, drivers for pcmcia(4) crypto cards that are being ejected will invoke this routine for all algorithms supported by the card. If
called with CRYPTO_ALGORITHM_ALL, all algorithms registered for a driver will be unregistered in one go and the driver will be disabled (no
new sessions will be allocated on that driver, and any existing sessions will be migrated to other drivers). The same will be done if all
algorithms associated with a driver are unregistered one by one.
The calling convention for the three driver-supplied routines is:
int (*newsession) (void *, u_int32_t *, struct cryptoini *);
int (*freesession) (void *, u_int64_t);
int (*process) (void *, struct cryptop *, int);
On invocation, the first argument to newsession() contains the driver identifier obtained via crypto_get_driverid(). On successfully return-
ing, it should contain a driver-specific session identifier. The second argument is identical to that of crypto_newsession().
The freesession() routine takes as argument the SID (which is the concatenation of the driver identifier and the driver-specific session
identifier). It should clear any context associated with the session (clear hardware registers, memory, etc.).
The process() routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto processing. This routine must not block, but should queue the request and
return immediately. Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked. In case of error, the error indication must be
placed in the crp_etype field of the cryptop structure. The hint argument can be set to CRYPTO_HINT_MORE when there will be more request
right after this request. When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the process() routine should invoke crypto_done(). Ses-
sion migration may be performed, as mentioned previously.
The kprocess() routine is invoked with a request to perform crypto key processing. This routine must not block, but should queue the request
and return immediately. Upon processing the request, the callback routine should be invoked. In case of error, the error indication must be
placed in the krp_status field of the cryptkop structure. When the request is completed, or an error is detected, the kprocess() routine
should invoke crypto_kdone().
RETURN VALUES
crypto_register(), crypto_kregister(), crypto_unregister(), crypto_newsession(), and crypto_freesession() return 0 on success, or an error
code on failure. crypto_get_driverid() returns a non-negative value on error, and -1 on failure. crypto_getreq() returns a pointer to a
cryptop structure and NULL on failure. crypto_dispatch() returns EINVAL if its argument or the callback function was NULL, and 0 otherwise.
The callback is provided with an error code in case of failure, in the crp_etype field.
FILES
sys/opencrypto/crypto.c most of the framework code
sys/crypto crypto algorithm implementations
SEE ALSO
ipsec(4), pcmcia(4), condvar(9), malloc(9)
Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright, and Theo de Raadt, The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework, Usenix, 2003, June 2003.
HISTORY
The cryptographic framework first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7 and was written by Angelos D. Keromytis <angelos@openbsd.org>.
Sam Leffler ported the crypto framework to FreeBSD and made performance improvements.
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@NetBSD.org> ported the cryptoframe from FreeBSD to NetBSD. opencrypto first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.
BUGS
The framework currently assumes that all the algorithms in a crypto_newsession() operation must be available by the same driver. If that's
not the case, session initialization will fail.
The framework also needs a mechanism for determining which driver is best for a specific set of algorithms associated with a session. Some
type of benchmarking is in order here.
Multiple instances of the same algorithm in the same session are not supported. Note that 3DES is considered one algorithm (and not three
instances of DES). Thus, 3DES and DES could be mixed in the same request.
A queue for completed operations should be implemented and processed at some software spl(9) level, to avoid overall system latency issues,
and potential kernel stack exhaustion while processing a callback.
When SMP time comes, we will support use of a second processor (or more) as a crypto device (this is actually AMP, but we need the same basic
support).
BSD
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