Re: [PATCH 4/4] crypto: Documentation: fix none signal safe sample

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue May 16 2017 - 18:41:15 EST


On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:53:45PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> The sample code was showing use of wait_for_completion_interruptible()
> for waiting for an async. crypto op to finish. However, if a signal
> arrived it would free the buffers used even while crypto HW might
> still DMA from/into the buffers.
>
> Resolve this by using wait_for_completion() instead.
>
> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst b/Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst
> index d021fd9..944f08b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/crypto/api-samples.rst
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Code Example For Symmetric Key Cipher Operation
> break;
> case -EINPROGRESS:
> case -EBUSY:
> - rc = wait_for_completion_interruptible(
> + rc = wait_for_completion(
> &sk->result.completion);
> if (!rc && !sk->result.err) {
> reinit_completion(&sk->result.completion);
> --
> 2.1.4
>

Same issue here: wait_for_completion() doesn't return a value.

Eric