linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: ccp - selective algorithm registration and ipsec-related fixes

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Date:	Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:21:00 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: ccp - selective algorithm registration and
 ipsec-related fixes

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Patch 1: Allow for selectively disabling the registration of an algorithm
> family (sha or aes algorithms) via module parameters.
> 
> Patch 2-4: Fix errors/issues that were found during IPSec testing. In
> order to prevent deadlocks with the networking code, the crypto callback
> was changed to run as a tasklet.  In order for the callback to be run as
> a tasklet, the HMAC calculation needed to be moved out of the callback
> path (since it sleeps) and into the CCP sha operation logic.  Additionally,
> trying to allow concurrency within the tfm while maintaining serialization
> of the tfm per CPU was not working properly so a single queue is used now.
> 
> This patch series is based on the cryptodev-2.6 kernel tree.

All applied.  Thanks!
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