Our nightly tests just detected a breaking change in RC7, not present in RC6.
We discovered it via the libkcapi test harness, affecting a somewhat random (but
consistent) subset of the skcipher tests.
I've bisected it to 1b34cbbf4f0. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with
the fix in that commit, but the refactor of the bools in struct af_alg_ctx as a
bitfield is unexpectedly breaking AF_ALG calls.
Target/toolchain/config details are listed below.
This patch restores correct behavior for us:
--- ./include/crypto/if_alg.h.dist 2025-09-25 17:14:59.821789747 +0000
+++ ./include/crypto/if_alg.h 2025-09-26 18:59:46.813132909 +0000
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ struct af_alg_ctx {
size_t used;
atomic_t rcvused;
- u32 more:1,
- merge:1,
- enc:1,
- write:1,
- init:1;
+ bool more;
+ bool merge;
+ bool enc;
+ bool write;
+ bool init;
unsigned int len;
Final success/failure count from the libkcapi test harness without the patch:
libkcapi test.sh results: 794 passed, 27 skipped, 61 failed.
Below is a snippet from that run. The logged kcapi commands reproduce the
problem directly -- I tested this separately, outside the libkcapi test script.
[PASSED: 64-bit - 6.17.0-rc7] AEAD gcm(aes) synchronous one shot non-aligned test 16
[PASSED: 64-bit - 6.17.0-rc7] AEAD gcm(aes) synchronous one shot non-aligned test 17
[FAILED: 64-bit - 6.17.0-rc7] AEAD gcm(aes) synchronous stream non-aligned test 1
(/usr/local/libexec/libkcapi/kcapi -x 2 -s -c "gcm(aes)" -i aac774c39e399e7d6371ec1d -k 38bd9eb2cb29cc42ac38d6cdbe116760 -a "5dbb2884f3fe93664613e863c3bd2572855cf808765880ef1fa5787ceef8c793" -t "34a21cc3562f0ba141d73242e5a3b666" -q
"d127b39d365d16246d2866b2ebabd201")
Exp 8f9ec088580c23fc[...]
Got Sending update buffer failed
Failed to invoke testing
[FAILED: 64-bit - 6.17.0-rc7] AEAD gcm(aes) synchronous stream non-aligned test 2
(/usr/local/libexec/libkcapi/kcapi -x 2 -s -c "gcm(aes)" -i 7815d4b06ae50c9c56e87bd7 -k ea38ac0c9b9998c80e28fb496a2b88d9 -a "853f98a750098bec1aa7497e979e78098155c877879556bb51ddeb6374cbaefc" -t "c4ce58985b7203094be1d134c1b8ab0b" -q
"b03692f86d1b8b39baf2abb255197c98")
Exp EBADMSG[...]
Got Sending update buffer failed
Failed to invoke testing
Target arch is amd64 (7960X).
Compiler is gcc (Gentoo 14.3.1_p20250801 p4) 14.3.1 20250801.
Tested with binutils 2.44 and 2.45 with identical results.
.config is at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T9Iyqv_Ql4FsbMf975BPCQR9fNqmriAm/view?usp=…
Note that this problem was discovered as part of the WolfSSL kernel crypto
testing program, but is present in the kernel native crypto, which we test
alongside our own crypto module in our nightlies.
