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Ard Biesheuvel
0d149ce67d crypto: arm/aes - avoid expanded lookup tables in the final round
For the final round, avoid the expanded and padded lookup tables
exported by the generic AES driver. Instead, for encryption, we can
perform byte loads from the same table we used for the inner rounds,
which will still be hot in the caches. For decryption, use the inverse
AES Sbox directly, which is 4x smaller than the inverse lookup table
exported by the generic driver.

This should significantly reduce the Dcache footprint of our code,
which makes the code more robust against timing attacks. It does not
introduce any additional module dependencies, given that we already
rely on the core AES module for the shared key expansion routines.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-08-04 09:27:25 +08:00
Ard Biesheuvel
658fa754cd crypto: arm/aes - avoid reserved 'tt' mnemonic in asm code
The ARMv8-M architecture introduces 'tt' and 'ttt' instructions,
which means we can no longer use 'tt' as a register alias on recent
versions of binutils for ARM. So replace the alias with 'ttab'.

Fixes: 81edb42629 ("crypto: arm/aes - replace scalar AES cipher")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-01-13 18:47:21 +08:00
Ard Biesheuvel
81edb42629 crypto: arm/aes - replace scalar AES cipher
This replaces the scalar AES cipher that originates in the OpenSSL project
with a new implementation that is ~15% (*) faster (on modern cores), and
reuses the lookup tables and the key schedule generation routines from the
generic C implementation (which is usually compiled in anyway due to
networking and other subsystems depending on it).

Note that the bit sliced NEON code for AES still depends on the scalar cipher
that this patch replaces, so it is not removed entirely yet.

* On Cortex-A57, the performance increases from 17.0 to 14.9 cycles per byte
  for 128-bit keys.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2017-01-13 00:26:50 +08:00