Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Fix CAAM hash driver

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:50:47 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following series fixes the CAAM hash driver, allowing it to work
> with the previously merged "crypto: ahash - ensure statesize is non-
> zero" patch.
> 
> This is non-trivial, because CAAM exports a huge 1600 bytes of data,
> which, if we set .statesize to this, still results in the core code
> rejecting the driver.  So, we need to shrink the amount of state
> exported.
> 
> The first, most obvious one to get rid of is the export of the
> caam_hash_ctx structure, which is shared between the socket being
> exported from and imported to - copying it away and back again was
> a complete no-op.
> 
> The second is that we don't need to export both pending-bytes buffers.
> Only one will be in use at any time.
> 
> A problem was encountered while testing, where the size of the pending
> bytes buffer was not added to the scatterlist with the correct length.
> This is also fixed in this series, by patch 3.  This bug was introduced
> by a prior commit trying to fix a tcrypt error.  However, the change is
> wrong, but I have to question whether the test was correct or not - the
> backtrace contains a function "test_ahash_pnum" which doesn't seem to
> exist in mainline, nor does it seem to exist in any previous mainline
> kernel.
> 
> Version 2 of this series addresses a mismerge in patch 5 of the
> original series, and adds further information to patch 3.
> 
> Further testing with tcrypt showed up a problem identified by the
> DMA API debugging (different to the original one referred to in
> patch 3) where we leak DMA mappings.
> 
>  drivers/crypto/caam/caamhash.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up
> according to speedtest.net.

Russell,

Thanks for putting these patches together. I tested the contents
successfully with OpenSSL/AF_ALG and i.MX6.

Tested-by: Victoria Milhoan <vicki.milhoan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Victoria Milhoan <vicki.milhoan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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