Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] crypto: fix the drivers that don't respect CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Eric Biggers wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:02:50AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Fix the crypto drivers that don't respect CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP. If
> > CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP is not set, the driver must not do allocation
> > that sleeps.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I think you need to split this up per driver with a proper explanation and a
> "Fixes:" tag for each driver.
> 
> Also, these bugs should have been detected by the crypto self-tests already,
> since they test having preemption disabled and CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP cleared.
> Can you double check whether these are all valid fixes?  One thing to watch out
> for is that CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP only applies to the function call like
> crypto_skcipher_encrypt() itself.  If the implementation is asynchronous and the
> request gets processed in the background (i.e. if crypto_skcipher_encrypt()
> returns -EINPROGRESS), the background work doesn't have to honor
> CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
> 
> - Eric

I can only compile-test this patch. I don't have the hardware.

Mikulas