Re: [PATCH] dcp: aes: Move the AES operation type from actx to rctx

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:31:01PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Move the AES operation type and mode from async crypto context to
> crypto request context. This allows for recycling of the async crypto
> context for different kinds of operations.
> 
> I found this problem when I used dm-crypt, which uses the same async
> crypto context (actx) for both encryption and decryption requests.
> Since the requests are enqueued into the processing queue, immediatelly
> storing the type of operation into async crypto context (actx) caused
> corruption of this information when encryption and decryption operations
> followed imediatelly one after the other. When the first operation was
> dequeued, the second operation was already enqueued and overwritten the
> type of operation in actx, thus causing incorrect result of the first
> operation.
> 
> Fix this problem by storing the type of operation into the crypto request
> context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied.
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