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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] crypto: lib/sha256 - Clear W[] in sha256_update() instead of sha256_transform()
Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:30:14 -0400
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The temporary W[] array is currently zeroed out once every call to
sha256_transform(), i.e. once every 64 bytes of input data. Moving it to
sha256_update() instead so that it is cleared only once per update can
save about 2-3% of the total time taken to compute the digest, with a
reasonable memset() implementation, and considerably more (~20%) with a
bad one (eg the x86 purgatory currently uses a memset() coded in C).

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
---
 lib/crypto/sha256.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crypto/sha256.c b/lib/crypto/sha256.c
index 099cd11f83c1..c6bfeacc5b81 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/sha256.c
+++ b/lib/crypto/sha256.c
@@ -43,10 +43,9 @@ static inline void BLEND_OP(int I, u32 *W)
 	W[I] = s1(W[I-2]) + W[I-7] + s0(W[I-15]) + W[I-16];
 }
 
-static void sha256_transform(u32 *state, const u8 *input)
+static void sha256_transform(u32 *state, const u8 *input, u32 *W)
 {
 	u32 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, t1, t2;
-	u32 W[64];
 	int i;
 
 	/* load the input */
@@ -200,15 +199,13 @@ static void sha256_transform(u32 *state, const u8 *input)
 
 	state[0] += a; state[1] += b; state[2] += c; state[3] += d;
 	state[4] += e; state[5] += f; state[6] += g; state[7] += h;
-
-	/* clear any sensitive info... */
-	memzero_explicit(W, 64 * sizeof(u32));
 }
 
 void sha256_update(struct sha256_state *sctx, const u8 *data, unsigned int len)
 {
 	unsigned int partial, done;
 	const u8 *src;
+	u32 W[64];
 
 	partial = sctx->count & 0x3f;
 	sctx->count += len;
@@ -223,11 +220,13 @@ void sha256_update(struct sha256_state *sctx, const u8 *data, unsigned int len)
 		}
 
 		do {
-			sha256_transform(sctx->state, src);
+			sha256_transform(sctx->state, src, W);
 			done += 64;
 			src = data + done;
 		} while (done + 63 < len);
 
+		memzero_explicit(W, sizeof(W));
+
 		partial = 0;
 	}
 	memcpy(sctx->buf + partial, src, len - done);
-- 
2.26.2