From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 01:15:13 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: xfrm: Drop support for HMAC-RIPEMD-160
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=05d42dc8ab92aa54aaeb1c033927c88fd2accba4;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

xfrm: Drop support for HMAC-RIPEMD-160

Drop support for HMAC-RIPEMD-160 from IPsec to reduce the UAPI surface
and simplify future maintenance.  It's almost certainly unused.

RIPEMD-160 received some attention in the early 2000s when SHA-* weren't
quite as well established.  But it never received much adoption outside
of certain niches such as Bitcoin.

It's actually unclear that Linux + IPsec + HMAC-RIPEMD-160 has *ever*
been used, even historically.  When support for it was added in 2003, it
was done so in a "cleanup" commit without any justification [1].  It
didn't actually work until someone happened to fix it 5 years later [2].
That person didn't use or test it either [3].  Finally, also note that
"hmac(rmd160)" is by far the slowest of the algorithms in aalg_list[].

Of course, today IPsec is usually used with an AEAD, such as AES-GCM.
But even for IPsec users still using a dedicated auth algorithm, they
almost certainly aren't using, and shouldn't use, HMAC-RIPEMD-160.

Thus, let's just drop support for it.  Note: no kconfig update is
needed, since CRYPTO_RMD160 wasn't actually being selected anyway.

References:
  [1] linux-history commit d462985fc1941a47
      ("[IPSEC]: Clean up key manager algorithm handling.")
  [2] linux commit a13366c632132bb9
      ("xfrm: xfrm_algo: correct usage of RIPEMD-160")
  [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1212340578-15574-1-git-send-email-rueegsegger@swiss-it.ch

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
index 749011e031c0a..70434495f23f5 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c
@@ -290,26 +290,6 @@ static struct xfrm_algo_desc aalg_list[] = {
 		.sadb_alg_maxbits = 512
 	}
 },
-{
-	.name = "hmac(rmd160)",
-	.compat = "rmd160",
-
-	.uinfo = {
-		.auth = {
-			.icv_truncbits = 96,
-			.icv_fullbits = 160,
-		}
-	},
-
-	.pfkey_supported = 1,
-
-	.desc = {
-		.sadb_alg_id = SADB_X_AALG_RIPEMD160HMAC,
-		.sadb_alg_ivlen = 0,
-		.sadb_alg_minbits = 160,
-		.sadb_alg_maxbits = 160
-	}
-},
 {
 	.name = "xcbc(aes)",
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipsec.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipsec.c
index f4afef51b9307..89c32c354c008 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipsec.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ipsec.c
@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@
 #define VETH_FMT	"ktst-%d"
 #define VETH_LEN	12
 
-#define XFRM_ALGO_NR_KEYS 29
-
 static int nsfd_parent	= -1;
 static int nsfd_childa	= -1;
 static int nsfd_childb	= -1;
@@ -96,7 +94,6 @@ struct xfrm_key_entry xfrm_key_entries[] = {
 	{"cbc(cast5)", 128},
 	{"cbc(serpent)", 128},
 	{"hmac(sha1)", 160},
-	{"hmac(rmd160)", 160},
 	{"cbc(des3_ede)", 192},
 	{"hmac(sha256)", 256},
 	{"cbc(aes)", 256},
@@ -813,7 +810,7 @@ static int xfrm_fill_key(char *name, char *buf,
 {
 	int i;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < XFRM_ALGO_NR_KEYS; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(xfrm_key_entries); i++) {
 		if (strncmp(name, xfrm_key_entries[i].algo_name, ALGO_LEN) == 0)
 			*key_len = xfrm_key_entries[i].key_len;
 	}
@@ -2061,8 +2058,7 @@ static int write_desc(int proto, int test_desc_fd,
 int proto_list[] = { IPPROTO_AH, IPPROTO_COMP, IPPROTO_ESP };
 char *ah_list[] = {
 	"digest_null", "hmac(md5)", "hmac(sha1)", "hmac(sha256)",
-	"hmac(sha384)", "hmac(sha512)", "hmac(rmd160)",
-	"xcbc(aes)", "cmac(aes)"
+	"hmac(sha384)", "hmac(sha512)", "xcbc(aes)", "cmac(aes)"
 };
 char *comp_list[] = {
 	"deflate",