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[2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for 0-len

Message ID 1449366698-2422-2-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Commit Message

Jason A. Donenfeld Dec. 6, 2015, 1:51 a.m. UTC
If the length of the plaintext is zero, there's no need to waste cycles
on encryption and decryption. Using the chacha20poly1305 construction
for zero-length plaintexts is a common way of using a shared encryption
key for AAD authentication.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 crypto/chacha20poly1305.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Comments

Herbert Xu Dec. 9, 2015, 12:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 02:51:38AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> If the length of the plaintext is zero, there's no need to waste cycles
> on encryption and decryption. Using the chacha20poly1305 construction
> for zero-length plaintexts is a common way of using a shared encryption
> key for AAD authentication.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/crypto/chacha20poly1305.c b/crypto/chacha20poly1305.c
index 99c3cce..7b6b935 100644
--- a/crypto/chacha20poly1305.c
+++ b/crypto/chacha20poly1305.c
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@  static int chacha_decrypt(struct aead_request *req)
 	struct scatterlist *src, *dst;
 	int err;
 
+	if (rctx->cryptlen == 0)
+		goto skip;
+
 	chacha_iv(creq->iv, req, 1);
 
 	sg_init_table(rctx->src, 2);
@@ -150,6 +153,7 @@  static int chacha_decrypt(struct aead_request *req)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+skip:
 	return poly_verify_tag(req);
 }
 
@@ -415,6 +419,9 @@  static int chacha_encrypt(struct aead_request *req)
 	struct scatterlist *src, *dst;
 	int err;
 
+	if (req->cryptlen == 0)
+		goto skip;
+
 	chacha_iv(creq->iv, req, 1);
 
 	sg_init_table(rctx->src, 2);
@@ -435,6 +442,7 @@  static int chacha_encrypt(struct aead_request *req)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+skip:
 	return poly_genkey(req);
 }