Re: Testing the geode-aes driver with the tcrypt module completely freezes the machine

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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Martin Schiller (mschiller@xxxxxx) wrote:
> The freeze is the result of an invinite while-loop in the function
> geode_ecb_encrypt()
> (and maybe also in the geode_ecb_decrypt()).
> 
> The cause for this seems to be, that the op->src == op->dst whereby the
> geode_aes_crypt() function does nothing at all,
> and so the value of nbytes will never be changed.

Hm, driver does not perform encryption in-place at all.
Since we did not hear from AMD quite for a while, could you please
remove src==dst check in geode_aes_crypt() and run tests again.
If it is software protection against hardware bug, I doubt such hardware
should be used at all...

> Regards,
> Martin

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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