This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: qat - Fix invalid synchronization between register/unregister sym algs
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-qat-fix-invalid-synchronization-between-register-unregister-sym-algs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6f043b50da8e03bdcc5703fd37ea45bc6892432f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:07:47 -0700
Subject: crypto: qat - Fix invalid synchronization between register/unregister sym algs
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 6f043b50da8e03bdcc5703fd37ea45bc6892432f upstream.
The synchronization method used atomic was bogus.
Use a proper synchronization with mutex.
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@
ICP_QAT_HW_CIPHER_KEY_CONVERT, \
ICP_QAT_HW_CIPHER_DECRYPT)
-static atomic_t active_dev;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(algs_lock);
+static unsigned int active_devs;
struct qat_alg_buf {
uint32_t len;
@@ -1271,7 +1272,10 @@ static struct crypto_alg qat_algs[] = {
int qat_algs_register(void)
{
- if (atomic_add_return(1, &active_dev) == 1) {
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ mutex_lock(&algs_lock);
+ if (++active_devs == 1) {
int i;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(qat_algs); i++)
@@ -1280,21 +1284,25 @@ int qat_algs_register(void)
CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AEAD | CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC :
CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC;
- return crypto_register_algs(qat_algs, ARRAY_SIZE(qat_algs));
+ ret = crypto_register_algs(qat_algs, ARRAY_SIZE(qat_algs));
}
- return 0;
+ mutex_unlock(&algs_lock);
+ return ret;
}
int qat_algs_unregister(void)
{
- if (atomic_sub_return(1, &active_dev) == 0)
- return crypto_unregister_algs(qat_algs, ARRAY_SIZE(qat_algs));
- return 0;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ mutex_lock(&algs_lock);
+ if (--active_devs == 0)
+ ret = crypto_unregister_algs(qat_algs, ARRAY_SIZE(qat_algs));
+ mutex_unlock(&algs_lock);
+ return ret;
}
int qat_algs_init(void)
{
- atomic_set(&active_dev, 0);
crypto_get_default_rng();
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/crypto-qat-fix-invalid-synchronization-between-register-unregister-sym-algs.patch
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