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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:35:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 26/62] keys/mktme: Move the MKTME payload into a cache aligned structure
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To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>, Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>, Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:43:46PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> +/* Copy the payload to the HW programming structure and program this KeyID */
> +static int mktme_program_keyid(int keyid, struct mktme_payload *payload)
> +{
> +	struct mktme_key_program *kprog = NULL;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	kprog = kmem_cache_zalloc(mktme_prog_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);

Why GFP_ATOMIC, afaict neither of the usage is with a spinlock held.

> +	if (!kprog)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	/* Hardware programming requires cached aligned struct */
> +	kprog->keyid = keyid;
> +	kprog->keyid_ctrl = payload->keyid_ctrl;
> +	memcpy(kprog->key_field_1, payload->data_key, MKTME_AES_XTS_SIZE);
> +	memcpy(kprog->key_field_2, payload->tweak_key, MKTME_AES_XTS_SIZE);
> +
> +	ret = MKTME_PROG_SUCCESS;	/* Future programming call */
> +	kmem_cache_free(mktme_prog_cache, kprog);
> +	return ret;
> +}