linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] s390/pkey: Use -ENODEV instead of -EOPNOTSUPP

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Message-ID: <c7c81266-fec1-3961-7445-c595a3588d3d@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:08:39 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Harald Freudenberger <freude@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] s390/pkey: Use -ENODEV instead of -EOPNOTSUPP

On 12.06.19 13:07, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
> On 12.06.19 12:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 12.06.19 12:39, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
>>> On 12.06.19 12:22, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> systemd-modules-load.service automatically tries to load the pkey module
>>>> on systems that have MSA.
>>>>
>>>> Pkey also requires the MSA3 facility and a bunch of subfunctions.
>>>> Failing with -EOPNOTSUPP makes "systemd-modules-load.service" fail on
>>>> any system that does not have all needed subfunctions. For example,
>>>> when running under QEMU TCG (but also on systems where protected keys
>>>> are disabled via the HMC).
>>>>
>>>> Let's use -ENODEV, so systemd-modules-load.service properly ignores
>>>> failing to load the pkey module because of missing HW functionality.
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c | 6 +++---
>>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c b/drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c
>>>> index 45eb0c14b880..ddfcefb47284 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c
>>>> @@ -1695,15 +1695,15 @@ static int __init pkey_init(void)
>>>>  	 * are able to work with protected keys.
>>>>  	 */
>>>>  	if (!cpacf_query(CPACF_PCKMO, &pckmo_functions))
>>>> -		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>> +		return -ENODEV;
>>>>  
>>>>  	/* check for kmc instructions available */
>>>>  	if (!cpacf_query(CPACF_KMC, &kmc_functions))
>>>> -		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>> +		return -ENODEV;
>>>>  	if (!cpacf_test_func(&kmc_functions, CPACF_KMC_PAES_128) ||
>>>>  	    !cpacf_test_func(&kmc_functions, CPACF_KMC_PAES_192) ||
>>>>  	    !cpacf_test_func(&kmc_functions, CPACF_KMC_PAES_256))
>>>> -		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>> +		return -ENODEV;
>>>>  
>>>>  	pkey_debug_init();
>>>>  
>>> You missed one match in this file. Function pkey_clr2protkey()
>>> also does a cpacf_test_func() and may return -EOPNOTSUPP.
>>> I checked the call chain, it's save to change the returncode there also.
>> That's unrelated to module loading (if I am not wrong), shall we still
>> include this change here?
>>
>> Thanks!
> That would be nice.
> However, I agree it is not related to module loading.

I can include that, thanks!


-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb