linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH] dmaengine: at

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160310110718.GE11154@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:37:19 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
Cc:	david.engraf@...go.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	cyrille.pitchen@...el.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.ferre@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] dmaengine: at_xdmac: fix residue computation

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:17:55AM +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> When computing the residue we need two pieces of information: the current
> descriptor and the remaining data of the current descriptor. To get
> that information, we need to read consecutively two registers but we
> can't do it in an atomic way. For that reason, we have to check manually
> that current descriptor has not changed.

Applied, thanks


-- 
~Vinod