Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/aria-avx - fix using avx2 instructions

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On 2/11/23 04:19, Dave Hansen wrote:

Hi Dave,
Thank you so much for the review!

> On 2/10/23 10:15, Taehee Yoo wrote:
>> vpbroadcastb and vpbroadcastd are not AVX instructions.
>> But the aria-avx assembly code contains these instructions.
>> So, kernel panic will occur if the aria-avx works on AVX2 unsupported
>> CPU.
> ...
>> My CPU supports AVX2.
>> So, I disabled AVX2 with QEMU.
>> In the VM, lscpu doesn't show AVX2, but kernel panic didn't occur.
>> Therefore, I couldn't reproduce kernel panic.
>> I will really appreciate it if someone test this patch.
>
> So, someone reported this issue and you _think_ you know what went
> wrong.  But, you can't reproduce the issue so it sounds like you're not
> confident if this is the right fix or if you are fixing the right
> problem in the first place.
>
> We can certainly apply obvious fixes, but it would be *really* nice if
> you could try a bit harder to reproduce this.

Yes, you're right.
I'm so sorry for this careless testing.
I think I didn't use enough time for making the reproducer environment.
I will try to make a proper environment for this work.

Thank you so much!
Taehee Yoo



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