Re: [patch 1/2] crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU erratain ECB mode
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jun 18 2009 - 07:36:20 EST
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 03:11:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> crypto: padlock-aes: work around Nano CPU errata in ECB mode
>
> The VIA Nano processor has a bug that makes it prefetch extra data
> during encryption operations, causing spurious page faults. Extend
> existing workarounds for ECB mode to copy the data to an temporary
> buffer to avoid the problem.
>
> Acked-by: HaraldWelte <HaraldWelte@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
All applied to crypt-2.6. Thanks a lot!
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