Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] crypto: Add Inside Secure SafeXcel EIP-93 crypto engine support

From: Christian Marangi
Date: Tue Dec 10 2024 - 07:17:01 EST


On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 08:06:32PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 12:55:02PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> >
> > The main problem here is that .update only enqueue packet to be
> > processed and we don't wait for it to finish as that would result in
> > really bad performance.
>
> You can return from update prior to finishing the hash. However,
> you must return -EINPROGRESS in that case.
>
> Once the hash has completed then you must export the hash state
> from the hardware into the request object, and then invoke the
> callback to inform the user that the update has finished.
>
> At that point, the user may call export.
>
> The user cannot call export prior to the update completing.
>

Oh! Ok, that is neat. Just to make sure everything is clear,
to complete the request it's the same used for final, the
ahash_request_complete(). I tought the -EINPROGRESS,
ahash_request_complete() pattern was only for final.

With the following implementation this is totally ok. Thanks for the
clarification on this.

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Ansuel