linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto: s5p-sss

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Message-id: <56DCFCB2.2090409@samsung.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:59:46 +0900
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto: s5p-sss - Handle unaligned buffers

On 07.03.2016 10:28, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On 06.03.2016 12:17, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> During crypto selftests on Odroid XU3 (Exynos5422) some of the
>> algorithms failed because of passing AES-block unaligned source and
>> destination buffers:
> 
> excuse my ignorance what are the crypto selftests you reference? Are they
> run-time self tests run by crypto manager on algorithm registration?

Yes, these tests. Disabled by CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS.

> 
>> alg: skcipher: encryption failed on chunk test 1 for ecb-aes-s5p: ret=22
>>
>> Handle such case by copying the buffers to a new aligned and contiguous
>> space.
> 
> I'm not quite convinced that a particular crypto accelerator driver
> is the right place for this change, at least I don't see in the change
> anything S5P-SSS specific, but it might be good to add the change.

The driver sets a .cra_alignmask but docs are saying that re-alignment
by crypto API might not happen. And in fact for selftets the data was
coming sometimes not-aligned.

On the other hand the CRYPTO_TEST was providing aligned data.

> 
> Briefly looking at other drivers similarly atmel-* and omap-* have
> slow path fallbacks, ./rockchip/rk3288_crypto_ablkcipher.c fails like
> s5p-sss etc.

Yes, I was kind of inspired by the omap solution.

> Anyway since it is a valid improvement, please feel free to add my
> 
> Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>

Thanks!

Krzysztof
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/crypto/s5p-sss.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 137 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>