linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] chcr: Support for Chelsio's Crypto Hardware

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:35:52 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Yeshaswi M R Gowda <yeshaswi@...lsio.com>
Cc:	hariprasad@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, jlulla@...lsio.com,
	atul.gupta@...lsio.com, harsh@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] chcr: Support for Chelsio's Crypto Hardware

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:28:07AM -0700, Yeshaswi M R Gowda wrote:
>
> +	u_ctx = ULD_CTX(ctx);
> +	if (cxgb4_is_crypto_q_full(u_ctx->lldi.ports[0], ctx->tx_channel_id))
> +		return -EBUSY;

You cannot just return -EBUSY.  If the request has the MAY_BACKLOG
bit set, it must be queued regardless, but you should return -EBUSY
in order to throttle the user and then call the completion function
with -EINPROGRESS once the queue can accept more requests from the
user.

Cheers,
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