[PATCH v7 05/12] crypto: qce - Use fallback for fragmented skcipher payloads
From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 09:20:39 EST
The crypto engine reliably processes AES requests only when the payload
is a single contiguous buffer. A payload split across multiple
scatterlist entries makes the engine stall waiting for input, failing
the request with a hardware operation error. This was uncovered by the
crypto self-tests, which feed the algorithms randomly fragmented
buffers.
Detect a payload that spans more than one scatterlist entry, in either
the source or the destination, and route the request to the software
fallback.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 25b71d61d631 ("crypto: qce - Improve the conditions for requesting AES fallback cipher")
Tested-by: Kuldeep Singh <kuldeep.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c b/drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c
index e2ca2f7a6eea1129edb724fe30659d55aaae8190..4b7545e6aed220b7fb5af7dbf20ab47db5d1d180 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c
@@ -261,13 +261,17 @@ static int qce_skcipher_crypt(struct skcipher_request *req, int encrypt)
* needed in all versions of CE)
* AES-CTR with a partial final block (the CE stalls waiting for a full
* block of input).
+ * A payload fragmented across more than one scatterlist entry (the CE
+ * stalls waiting for input in that case too).
*/
if (IS_AES(rctx->flags) &&
((keylen != AES_KEYSIZE_128 && keylen != AES_KEYSIZE_256) ||
(IS_CTR(rctx->flags) && !IS_ALIGNED(req->cryptlen, AES_BLOCK_SIZE)) ||
(IS_XTS(rctx->flags) && ((req->cryptlen <= aes_sw_max_len) ||
(req->cryptlen > QCE_SECTOR_SIZE &&
- req->cryptlen % QCE_SECTOR_SIZE))))) {
+ req->cryptlen % QCE_SECTOR_SIZE))) ||
+ sg_nents_for_len(req->src, req->cryptlen) > 1 ||
+ sg_nents_for_len(req->dst, req->cryptlen) > 1)) {
skcipher_request_set_tfm(&rctx->fallback_req, ctx->fallback);
skcipher_request_set_callback(&rctx->fallback_req,
req->base.flags,
--
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