linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error

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Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 11:17:33 +0300
From:   Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
To:     Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@....com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error

On 5/20/2020 1:17 AM, Iuliana Prodan wrote:
> Now, in crypto-engine, if hardware queue is full (-ENOSPC),
> requeue request regardless of MAY_BACKLOG flag.
> If hardware throws any other error code (like -EIO, -EINVAL,
> -ENOMEM, etc.) only MAY_BACKLOG requests are enqueued back into
> crypto-engine's queue, since the others can be dropped.
> The latter case can be fatal error, so those cannot be recovered from.
> For example, in CAAM driver, -EIO is returned in case the job descriptor
> is broken, so there is no possibility to fix the job descriptor.
> Therefore, these errors might be fatal error, so we shouldn’t
> requeue the request. This will just be pass back and forth between
> crypto-engine and hardware.
> 
> Fixes: 6a89f492f8e5 ("crypto: engine - support for parallel requests based on retry mechanism")
> Signed-off-by: Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@....com>
Reported-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>

Thanks,
Horia