RE: [RFC PATCH V3 0/4] Add Xilinx's ZynqMP SHA3 driver support

From: Kalyani Akula
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 11:13:24 EST


Hi Corentin,

Please find my response inline.

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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3 0/4] Add Xilinx's ZynqMP SHA3 driver support
>
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:04:38PM +0530, Kalyani Akula wrote:
> > This patch set adds support for
> > - dt-binding docs for Xilinx ZynqMP SHA3 driver
> > - Adds communication layer support for sha_hash in zynqmp.c
> > - Adds Xilinx ZynqMP driver for SHA3 Algorithm
> > - Adds device tree node for ZynqMP SHA3 driver
> >
> > V3 Changes :
> > - Removed zynqmp_sha_import and export APIs.The reason as follows The
> > user space code does an accept on an already accepted FD when we
> > create AF_ALG socket and call accept on it, it calls af_alg_accept and
> > not hash_accept.
> > import and export APIs are called from hash_accept.
> > The flow is as below
> > accept--> af_alg_accept-->hash_accept_parent-->hash_accept_parent_noke
> > accept--> y
> > for hash salg_type.
> > - Resolved comments from
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10753719/
> >
>
>
> Your driver still doesnt handle the case where two hash are done in parallel.
>

Our Firmware uses IPI protocol to send this SHA3 requests to SHA3 HW engine, which doesn't support parallel processing of 2 hash requests.
The flow is
SHA3 request from App -> SHA3 driver-> ZynqMp driver-> Firmware (which doesn't support parallel processing of 2 requests) -> SHA3 HW Engine


> Furthermore, you miss the export/import functions.
>

When user space code does an accept on an already accepted FD as below
sockfd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa));
fd = accept(sockfd, NULL, 0);

where my sockaddr is
struct sockaddr_alg sa = {
.salg_family = AF_ALG,
.salg_type = "hash",
.salg_name = "xilinx-sha3-384"
};

Upon calling accept the flow in the kernel is as mentioned
accept--> af_alg_accept-->hash_accept_parent-->hash_accept_parent_nokey
for hash salg_type.

And where import and export functions are called from hash_accept. hence, these functions never be called from the application.
So, I removed those from the driver.

Regards
Kalyani.

> Regards