linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I)

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:00:01 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
Cc:     David Gstir <david@...ma-star.at>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dan Douglass <dan.douglass@....com>, richard@...ma-star.at,
        Radu Solea <radu.solea@....com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I)

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:44:45AM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
> Changes in the SW cts (ciphertext stealing) code in
> commit 0605c41cc53ca ("crypto: cts - Convert to skcipher")
> revealed a problem in the CAAM driver:
> when cts(cbc(aes)) is executed and cts runs in SW,
> cbc(aes) is offloaded in CAAM; cts encrypts the last block
> in atomic context and CAAM incorrectly decides to use GFP_KERNEL
> for memory allocation.
> 
> Fix this by allowing GFP_KERNEL (sleeping) only when MAY_SLEEP flag is
> set, i.e. remove MAY_BACKLOG flag.
> 
> We split the fix in two parts - first is sent to -stable, while the
> second is not (since there is no known failure case).
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20170602122446.2427-1-david@sigma-star.at
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.8+
> Reported-by: David Gstir <david@...ma-star.at>
> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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