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<title>s390/zcrypt: Rework zcrypt function zcrypt_device_status_mask_ext</title>
<updated>2025-04-30T09:34:01Z</updated>
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<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2025-04-24T13:36:02Z</published>
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Rework the existing function zcrypt_device_status_mask_ext():
Add two new parameters to provide upper limits for
cards and queues. The existing implementation needed an
array of 256 * 256 * 4 = 256 KB which is really huge. The
reworked function is more flexible in the sense that the
caller can decide the upper limit for cards and domains to
be stored into the status array. So for example a caller may
decide to only query for cards 0...127 and queues 0...127
and thus only an array of size 128 * 128 * 4 = 64 KB is needed.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424133619.16495-9-freude@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt: Introduce cprb mempool for cca misc functions</title>
<updated>2025-04-30T09:34:00Z</updated>
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<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2025-04-24T13:36:00Z</published>
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Introduce a new module parameter "zcrypt_mempool_threshold"
for the zcrypt module. This parameter controls the minimal
amount of mempool items which are pre-allocated for urgent
requests/replies and will be used with the support for the
new xflag ZCRYPT_XFLAG_NOMEMALLOC. The default value of 5
shall provide enough memory items to support up to 5 requests
(and their associated reply) in parallel. The minimum value
is 1 and is checked in zcrypt module init().

If the mempool is depleted upon one cca misc functions is called
with the named xflag set, the function will fail with -ENOMEM
and the caller is responsible for taking further actions.

For CCA each mempool item is 16KB, as a CCA CPRB needs to
hold the request and the reply. The pool items only support
requests/replies with a limit of about 8KB.
So by default the CCA mempool consumes
  5 * 16KB = 80KB

This is only part of an rework to support a new xflag
ZCRYPT_XFLAG_NOMEMALLOC but not yet complete.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424133619.16495-7-freude@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/ap/zcrypt: New xflag parameter</title>
<updated>2025-04-30T09:34:00Z</updated>
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<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2025-04-24T13:35:59Z</published>
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Introduce a new flag parameter for the both cprb send functions
zcrypt_send_cprb() and zcrypt_send_ep11_cprb(). This new
xflags parameter ("execution flags") shall be used to provide
execution hints and flags for this crypto request.

There are two flags implemented to be used with these functions:
* ZCRYPT_XFLAG_USERSPACE - indicates to the lower layers that
  all the ptrs address userspace. So when construction the ap msg
  copy_from_user() is to be used. If this flag is NOT set, the ptrs
  address kernel memory and thus memcpy() is to be used.
* ZCRYPT_XFLAG_NOMEMALLOC - indicates that this task must not
  allocate memory which may be allocated with io operations.

For the AP bus and zcrypt message layer this means:
* The ZCRYPT_XFLAG_USERSPACE is mapped to the already existing
  bool variable "userspace" which is propagated to the zcrypt
  proto implementations.
* The ZCRYPT_XFLAG_NOMEMALLOC results in setting the AP flag
  AP_MSG_FLAG_MEMPOOL when the AP msg buffer is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424133619.16495-6-freude@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/zcrypt: improve zcrypt retry behavior</title>
<updated>2024-03-07T13:41:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2024-01-30T17:35:51Z</published>
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This patch reworks and improves the zcrypt retry behavior:
- The zcrypt_rescan_req counter has been removed. This
  counter variable has been increased on some transport
  errors and was used as a gatekeeper for AP bus rescans.
- Rework of the zcrypt_process_rescan() function to not
  use the above counter variable any more. Instead now
  always the ap_bus_force_rescan() function is called
  (as this has been improved with a previous patch).
- As the zcrpyt_process_rescan() function is called in
  all cprb send functions in case of the first attempt
  to send failed with ENODEV now before the next attempt
  to send an cprb is started.
- Introduce a define ZCRYPT_WAIT_BINDINGS_COMPLETE_MS
  for the amount of milliseconds to have the zcrypt API
  wait for AP bindings complete. This amount has been
  reduced to 30s (was 60s). Some playing around showed
  that 30s is a really fair limit.

The result of the above together with the patches to
improve the AP scan bus functions is that after the
first loop of cprb send retries when the result is a
ENODEV the AP bus scan is always triggered (synchronous).
If the AP bus scan detects changes in the configuration,
all the send functions now retry when the first attempt
was failing with ENODEV in the hope that now a suitable
device has appeared.

About concurrency: The ap_bus_force_rescan() uses a mutex
to ensure only one active AP bus scan is running. Another
caller of this function is blocked as long as the scan is
running but does not cause yet another scan. Instead the
result of the 'other' scan is used. This affects only tasks
which run into an initial ENODEV. Tasks with successful
delivery of cprbs will never invoke the bus scan and thus
never get blocked by the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt: cleanup some debug code</title>
<updated>2023-07-03T09:19:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2023-06-19T14:55:07Z</published>
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This patch removes most of the debug code which
is build in when CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG is enabled.
There is no real exploiter for this code any more and
at least one ioctl fails with this code enabled.

The CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG kernel config option still
makes sense as some debug sysfs entries can get
enabled with this and maybe long term a new better
designed debug and error injection way will get
introduced.

This patch only removes code surrounded by the named
kernel config option. This option should by default
always be off anyway. The structs and defines removed
by the patch have been used only by code surrounded
by a CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG ifdef and thus can be removed
also.

In the end this patch removes all the failure-injection
possibilities which had been available when the kernel
had been build with CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG. It has never
been used that much and was too unflexible anyway.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt: code cleanup</title>
<updated>2022-04-25T11:54:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2022-04-04T15:12:37Z</published>
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This patch tries to fix as much as possible of the
checkpatch.pl --strict findings:
  CHECK: Logical continuations should be on the previous line
  CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
  CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
  CHECK: 'useable' may be misspelled - perhaps 'usable'?
  WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'is'
  CHECK: spaces preferred around that '*' (ctx:VxV)
  CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!msg"
  CHECK: Prefer kzalloc(sizeof(*zc)...) over kzalloc(sizeof(struct...)...)
  CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around resp_type-&gt;work
  CHECK: Avoid CamelCase: &lt;xcRB&gt;

There is no functional change comming with this patch, only
code cleanup, renaming, whitespaces, indenting, ... but no
semantic change in any way. Also the API (zcrypt and pkey
header file) is semantically unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jürgen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/ap/zcrypt: notify userspace with online, config and mode info</title>
<updated>2021-06-16T21:46:18Z</updated>
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<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
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<published>2021-04-13T16:11:09Z</published>
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This patch brings 3 reworked/new uevent changes:
* All AP uevents caused by an ap card or queue device now carry an
  additional uevent env value MODE=&lt;accel|cca|ep11&gt;. Here is an
  example:
    KERNEL[1267.301292] add	 /devices/ap/card0a (ap)
    ACTION=add
    DEVPATH=/devices/ap/card0a
    SUBSYSTEM=ap
    DEVTYPE=ap_card
    DEV_TYPE=000D
    MODALIAS=ap:t0D
    MODE=ep11			 &lt;- this is new
    SEQNUM=1095
  This is true for bind, unbind, add, remove, and change uevents
  related to ap card or ap queue devices.
* On a change of the soft online attribute on a zcrypt queue or card
  device a new CHANGE uevent is sent with an env value ONLINE=&lt;0|1&gt;.
  Example uevent:
    KERNEL[613.067531] change	/devices/ap/card09/09.0011 (ap)
    ACTION=change
    DEVPATH=/devices/ap/card09/09.0011
    SUBSYSTEM=ap
    ONLINE=0			&lt;- this is new
    DEVTYPE=ap_queue
    DRIVER=cex4queue
    MODE=cca
    SEQNUM=1070
- On a change of the config state of an zcrypt card device a new
  CHANGE uevent is sent with an env value CONFIG=&lt;0|1&gt;.
  Example uevent:
    KERNEL[876.258680] change	/devices/ap/card09 (ap)
    ACTION=change
    DEVPATH=/devices/ap/card09
    SUBSYSTEM=ap
    CONFIG=0			&lt;- this is new
    DEVTYPE=ap_card
    DRIVER=cex4card
    DEV_TYPE=000D
    MODALIAS=ap:t0D
    MODE=cca
    SEQNUM=1073
  Setting a card config on/off causes the dependent queue devices to
  follow the config state change and thus uevents informing about the
  config state change for the queue devices are also emitted.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Franzki &lt;ifranzki@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt: remove zcrypt_device_count</title>
<updated>2021-06-07T15:06:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Wiedmann</name>
</author>
<published>2021-04-16T09:58:41Z</published>
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It's evidently unused.

Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann &lt;jwi@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt/pkey: introduce zcrypt_wait_api_operational() function</title>
<updated>2020-11-09T10:21:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-01T10:48:14Z</published>
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The zcrypt api provides a new function to wait until the zcrypt
api is operational:

  int zcrypt_wait_api_operational(void);

The AP bus scan and the binding of ap devices to device drivers is
an asynchronous job. This function waits until these initial jobs
are done and so the zcrypt api should be ready to serve crypto
requests - if there are resources available. The function uses an
internal timeout of 60s. The very first caller will either wait for
ap bus bindings complete or the timeout happens. This state will be
remembered for further callers which will only be blocked until a
decision is made (timeout or bindings complete).

Reviewed-by: Ingo Franzki &lt;ifranzki@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/zcrypt: Introduce Failure Injection feature</title>
<updated>2020-10-07T19:50:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-29T14:07:22Z</published>
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Introduce a way to specify additional debug flags with an crpyto
request to be able to trigger certain failures within the zcrypt
device drivers and/or ap core code.

This failure injection possibility is only enabled with a kernel debug
build CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG) and should never be available on a regular
kernel running in production environment.

Details:

* The ioctl(ICARSAMODEXPO) get's a struct ica_rsa_modexpo. If the
  leftmost bit of the 32 bit unsigned int inputdatalength field is
  set, the uppermost 16 bits are separated and used as debug flag
  value. The process is checked to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability
  enabled or EPERM is returned.

* The ioctl(ICARSACRT) get's a struct ica_rsa_modexpo_crt. If the
  leftmost bit of the 32 bit unsigned int inputdatalength field is set,
  the uppermost 16 bits are separated and used als debug flag
  value. The process is checked to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability
  enabled or EPERM is returned.

* The ioctl(ZSECSENDCPRB) used to send CCA CPRBs get's a struct
  ica_xcRB. If the leftmost bit of the 32 bit unsigned int status
  field is set, the uppermost 16 bits of this field are used as debug
  flag value. The process is checked to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
  capability enabled or EPERM is returned.

* The ioctl(ZSENDEP11CPRB) used to send EP11 CPRBs get's a struct
  ep11_urb. If the leftmost bit of the 64 bit unsigned int req_len
  field is set, the uppermost 16 bits of this field are used as debug
  flag value. The process is checked to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
  capability enabled or EPERM is returned.

So it is possible to send an additional 16 bit value to the zcrypt API
to be used to carry a failure injection command which may trigger
special behavior within the zcrypt API and layers below. This 16 bit
value is for the rest of the test referred as 'fi command' for Failure
Injection.

The lower 8 bits of the fi command construct a numerical argument in
the range of 1-255 and is the 'fi action' to be performed with the
request or the resulting reply:

* 0x00 (all requests): No failure injection action but flags may be
  provided which may affect the processing of the request or reply.
* 0x01 (only CCA CPRBs): The CPRB's agent_ID field is set to
  'FF'. This results in an reply code 0x90 (Transport-Protocol
  Failure).
* 0x02 (only CCA CPRBs): After the APQN to send to has been chosen,
  the domain field within the CPRB is overwritten with value 99 to
  enforce an reply with RY 0x8A.
* 0x03 (all requests): At NQAP invocation the invalid qid value 0xFF00
  is used causing an response code of 0x01 (AP queue not valid).

The upper 8 bits of the fi command may carry bit flags which may
influence the processing of an request or response:

* 0x01: No retry. If this bit is set, the usual loop in the zcrypt API
  which retries an CPRB up to 10 times when the lower layers return
  with EAGAIN is abandoned after the first attempt to send the CPRB.
* 0x02: Toggle special. Toggles the special bit on this request. This
  should result in an reply code RY~0x41 and result in an ioctl
  failure with errno EINVAL.

This failure injection possibilities may get some further extensions
in the future. As of now this is a starting point for Continuous Test
and Integration to trigger some failures and watch for the reaction of
the ap bus and zcrypt device driver code.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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