Re: [RFC 1/1] net/tls(TLS_SW): Handle -ENOSPC error return from device/AES-NI

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On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:35:34 +1100 Herbert Xu wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Why would the driver return EBUSY from an async API? What's the caller
> > supposed to do with that?  
> 
> The Crypto API offers two modes for callers to deal with congestion.
> If the request can be safely dropped (e.g., IPsec) then ENOSPC will
> be returned and should be dealt with accordingly.
> 
> If the request cannot be dropped then EBUSY is returned to indicate
> congestion, and the caller must refrain from issuing any more
> requests until the Crypto API signals that there is space for them.
> 
> The request flag CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG is used to indicate
> which mode you wish to use.

Are you saying that if we set CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG we should
never see ENOSPC with a correctly functioning driver? Or do we need 
to handle both errors, regardless?



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