KVM: Don't pre-reserve xarray entries when storing empty/NULL attributesgrafted

Skip the xarray reservation loop when clearing all memory attributes, as
storing NULL only erases the entry and never needs to allocate, so no
reservation (and no cleanup of a failed one) is required in that case.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: David Ballesteros <davimaba.v@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Chi <zengchi@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921102442.1232375-1-zeng_chi911@163.com
[sean: split to separate patch]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/crypto/aes-ctr.h b/include/crypto/aes-ctr.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e214a857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/crypto/aes-ctr.h
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * AES-CTR and AES-XCTR stream ciphers
+ *
+ * Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+ */
+#ifndef _CRYPTO_AES_CTR_H
+#define _CRYPTO_AES_CTR_H
+
+#include <crypto/aes.h>
+
+/**
+ * aes_ctr() - AES-CTR en/decryption
+ * @dst: The destination buffer.  Can be in-place or out-of-place.  For other
+ *	 overlaps the behavior is unspecified.
+ * @src: The source data
+ * @len: Number of bytes to en/decrypt
+ * @ctr: The counter.  It will be incremented by ceil(@len / AES_BLOCK_SIZE).
+ * @key: The key, already prepared using aes_preparekey() or aes_prepareenckey()
+ *
+ * This implements AES in counter mode with a 128-bit big endian counter.
+ *
+ * This exists only for use by the implementation of modes built on top of CTR
+ * (e.g., GCM and CCM) and some legacy protocols that use CTR mode directly.
+ * Callers are expected to know how to use CTR mode appropriately, including
+ * choosing (key, counter) pairs appropriately to avoid keystream reuse.
+ *
+ * This supports incremental en/decryption.  The length of each non-final chunk
+ * must be a multiple of AES_BLOCK_SIZE, and the updated @ctr must be passed in
+ * each time.
+ *
+ * Context: Any context.
+ */
+void aes_ctr(u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t len,
+	     u8 ctr[at_least AES_BLOCK_SIZE], aes_encrypt_arg key);
+
+/**
+ * aes_xctr() - AES-XCTR en/decryption
+ * @dst: The destination buffer.  Can be in-place or out-of-place.  For other
+ *	 overlaps the behavior is unspecified.
+ * @src: The source data
+ * @len: Number of bytes to en/decrypt
+ * @ctr: The block counter (in host endianness).  For the first call, set it to
+ *	 1.  It will be incremented by ceil(@len / AES_BLOCK_SIZE).
+ * @iv: The initialization vector
+ * @key: The key, already prepared using aes_preparekey() or aes_prepareenckey()
+ *
+ * This implements AES in XOR Counter mode, as specified in the paper
+ * "Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2"
+ * (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1441.pdf).
+ *
+ * This exists only for use by the implementation of modes built on top of XCTR.
+ * Callers are expected to know how to use XCTR mode appropriately, including
+ * choosing (key, IV) pairs appropriately to avoid keystream reuse.
+ *
+ * This supports incremental en/decryption.  The length of each non-final chunk
+ * must be a multiple of AES_BLOCK_SIZE, and the updated @ctr must be passed in
+ * each time.
+ *
+ * Context: Any context.
+ */
+void aes_xctr(u8 *dst, const u8 *src, size_t len, u64 *ctr,
+	      const u8 iv[at_least AES_BLOCK_SIZE], aes_encrypt_arg key);
+
+#endif /* _CRYPTO_AES_CTR_H */