Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I)

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 05:00:33 EST


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:44:45AM +0300, Horia GeantÄ wrote:
> Changes in the SW cts (ciphertext stealing) code in
> commit 0605c41cc53ca ("crypto: cts - Convert to skcipher")
> revealed a problem in the CAAM driver:
> when cts(cbc(aes)) is executed and cts runs in SW,
> cbc(aes) is offloaded in CAAM; cts encrypts the last block
> in atomic context and CAAM incorrectly decides to use GFP_KERNEL
> for memory allocation.
>
> Fix this by allowing GFP_KERNEL (sleeping) only when MAY_SLEEP flag is
> set, i.e. remove MAY_BACKLOG flag.
>
> We split the fix in two parts - first is sent to -stable, while the
> second is not (since there is no known failure case).
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20170602122446.2427-1-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.8+
> Reported-by: David Gstir <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Horia GeantÄ <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied. Thanks.
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