linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 04/14] crypto: add a new driver for Marvell's CESA

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Message-ID: <20150615133135.47ffd3e3@bbrezillon>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:31:35 +0200
From:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Arnaud Ebalard <arno@...isbad.org>,
	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@...vell.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
	Eran Ben-Avi <benavi@...vell.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 04/14] crypto: add a new driver for Marvell's
 CESA

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:54:21 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> >
> > +static int mv_cesa_cbc_aes_op(struct ablkcipher_request *req,
> > +			      struct mv_cesa_op_ctx *tmpl)
> > +{
> > +	mv_cesa_update_op_cfg(tmpl, CESA_SA_DESC_CFG_CRYPTCM_CBC,
> > +			      CESA_SA_DESC_CFG_CRYPTCM_MSK);
> > +	memcpy(tmpl->ctx.blkcipher.iv, req->info, 16);
> 
> You need to copy the IV back into req->info after completion.

I haven't found any driver updating the req->info field with the new
IV. Could you point me to one of them.

> 
> Incidentally we don't seem to test for output IVs in our self-
> test so bugs like this can slip through until someone tries to
> do chaining with it.  That's something worth adding to testmgr.

Yes, that makes sense, but since a lot a drivers (if not all of them)
are not updating this field we'll break them when adding this test
unless we make it optional (with a new flag ?).

Do you have any suggestion to address this problem ?

-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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