linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in ECB mode

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Message-ID: <20090618113559.GA6596@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:35:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Cc:	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata
	in ECB mode

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:11:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
> crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in ECB mode
> 
> The VIA Nano processor has a bug that makes it prefetch extra data
> during encryption operations, causing spurious page faults. Extend
> existing workarounds for ECB mode to copy the data to an temporary
> buffer to avoid the problem.
> 
> Acked-by: HaraldWelte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>

All applied to crypt-2.6.  Thanks a lot!
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