netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/tls: avoid spurious decryption error with HW resync

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:20:10 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        borisp@...lanox.com, aviadye@...lanox.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        david.beckett@...ronome.com, simon.horman@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/tls: avoid spurious decryption error with HW
 resync

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 04:36:55 -0800

> When device loses sync mid way through a record - kernel
> has to re-encrypt the part of the record which the device
> already decrypted to be able to decrypt and authenticate
> the record in its entirety.
> 
> The re-encryption piggy backs on the decryption routine,
> but obviously because the partially decrypted record can't
> be authenticated crypto API returns an error which is then
> ignored by tls_device_reencrypt().
> 
> Commit 5c5ec6685806 ("net/tls: add TlsDecryptError stat")
> added a statistic to count decryption errors, this statistic
> can't be incremented when we see the expected re-encryption
> error. Move the inc to the caller.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: David Beckett <david.beckett@...ronome.com>
> Fixes: 5c5ec6685806 ("net/tls: add TlsDecryptError stat")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>

Applied.