Hardware crypto display doesn't appear

MikeV7896

I haven't found a thread for this yet in the couple of forums that I've looked, so figured I'd start it since I have this issue as well…

@SisterOfMercy:

@cmb:

It automatically displays on the dashboard where AES-NI is enabled under System>Advanced, Misc, and exists on the system.

This should be in the 'system information' widget, right? I have an A1SRi-2558F, AES-NI is enabled under the misc settings. It doesn't show for me. I tried to disable AES-NI and then enable it again, but that also did not work.

Status -> System logs does show "kernel: aesni0: <aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm>on motherboard"</aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm>

This may or may not be related to bug 4809.

Anyway, as later requested in the upgrade topic…

@cmb:

Start a new thread on that, including the output of:
grep -i aesni /var/log/dmesg.boot

Features2=0x43d8e3bf<sse3,pclmulqdq,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,vmx,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,sse4.2,movbe,popcnt,tscdlt,aesni,rdrand></sse3,pclmulqdq,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,vmx,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,sse4.2,movbe,popcnt,tscdlt,aesni,rdrand>

And as with SisterOfMercy, this shows in the Status > System Logs:

kernel: aesni0: <aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm> on motherboard</aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm>

But even with all that, I see no Hardware Crypto display on the dashboard.

AES-NI was enabled on my system a while ago, and I've done a few updates and reboots since. I didn't realize there was something that should be showing until this topic came up.

pppfsense

I also do have aesni in my cpu (Intel Xeon E3-1225) and I am not seeing "Crypto" in the Dashboard.

pfSense is running under ESXi, but that should not matter as pfsense does report the cpu supports aesni.

Thanks.
J.

dotdash

Just updated a box from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 (Full, amd64) Not seeing any hardware crypto in the System Information wigit on the dashboard.
Box has two X5650's in it:

 Features2=0x29ee3ff<sse3,pclmulqdq,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,vmx,smx,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,pcid,dca,sse4.1,sse4.2,popcnt,aesni></sse3,pclmulqdq,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,vmx,smx,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,pcid,dca,sse4.1,sse4.2,popcnt,aesni>

2.2.4 (nano i386) on an Alix doesn't show glxsb (don't think it ever did), but will show Hardware crypto if I put a Hifn card in.

dennypage

I am not seeing "Hardware crypto" in the information widget on my SG-4860 either.

In my case, it's appears to be the result of the /var/log/dmesg.boot snapshot being created too early in the boot process.

If I freshen the snapshot


dmesg > /var/log/dmesg.boot

The widget then displays the information correctly.

dennypage

A bug report has been filed.

SisterOfMercy

@dennypage:

In my case, it's appears to be the result of the /var/log/dmesg.boot snapshot being created too early in the boot process.

Ah, thanks! At least I can work around it with the shellcmd package. Or of course a shell script, but I'm a lazy sod.