Re: [PATCH] crypto: s390/paes - Fix module aliases

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On 18.09.2024 06:01, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 11:54:30AM +0200, Ingo Franzki wrote:
>>
>> I used 'make defconfig' on s390x, so nothing special: 
> 
> Thanks, it turns out to be an existing bug but it just happens
> to have worked.
> 
> ---8<---
> The paes_s390 module didn't declare the correct aliases for the
> algorithms that it registered.  Instead it declared an alias for
> the non-existent paes algorithm.
> 
> The Crypto API will eventually try to load the paes algorithm, to
> construct the cbc(paes) instance.  But because the module does not
> actually contain a "paes" algorithm, this will fail.
> 
> Previously this failure was hidden and the the cbc(paes) lookup will
> be retried.  This was fixed recently, thus exposing the buggy alias
> in paes_s390.
> 
> Replace the bogus paes alias with aliases for the actual algorithms.
> 
> Reported-by: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: e7a4142b35ce ("crypto: api - Fix generic algorithm self-test races")
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c b/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
> index 99ea3f12c5d2..b8d9f385555d 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c
> @@ -802,7 +802,10 @@ static int __init paes_s390_init(void)
>  module_init(paes_s390_init);
>  module_exit(paes_s390_fini);
>  
> -MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("paes");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("ecb(paes)");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("cbc(paes)");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("ctr(paes)");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("xts(paes)");
>  
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm with protected keys");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

I can confirm that this solves the problem.
Thanks for identifying this!

Tested-by: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Trough which tree should we carry this patch forward? 
Through the crypto tree or the s390 tree? 
@Heiko @Harald @Herbert opinions?

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