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* [PATCHv2] crypto: amcc - fix missing DMA memory barriers in descriptor handling
@ 2026-08-11  4:47 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-08-11  4:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-crypto; +Cc: Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, open list

Fix two memory ordering bugs in the AMCC crypto driver:

1. In crypto4xx_bh_tasklet_cb(), add a dma_rmb() between reading the
   PD_CTL_PE_DONE bit (with READ_ONCE) and reading the descriptor and DMA
   buffer data in crypto4xx_pd_done().  Without it, the CPU on a
   weakly-ordered architecture could read stale descriptor data before the
   hardware's writes are globally visible.

2. In crypto4xx_build_pd(), add a dma_wmb() before writing
   PD_CTL_HOST_READY to ensure all descriptor and SA data is visible to
   the device before the ownership handover bit.  Also fix the descriptor
   field ordering: pd_ctl_len.w must be written before pd_ctl.w (which
   contains HOST_READY), not after, to prevent the hardware from fetching
   uninitialized length data.

Fixes: f6c48b76daa6 (crypto: amcc - Add crypto4xx-aead cryptographic
  AEAD accelerator driver)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
 v2: add descriptions for write barriers.
 drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c b/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c
index fd010bfb7020..4b0ce165c198 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c
@@ -876,11 +876,17 @@ int crypto4xx_build_pd(struct crypto_async_request *req,
 		}
 	}
 
+	pd->pd_ctl_len.w = 0x00400000 | (assoclen + datalen);
+	pd_uinfo->state = PD_ENTRY_INUSE | (is_busy ? PD_ENTRY_BUSY : 0);
+
+	/* make the pd_ctl_len and pd_uinfo->state writes above visible to
+	 * the device before the HOST_READY handover write below, so the
+	 * device never fetches a descriptor with stale length/state bits
+	 */
+	dma_wmb();
 	pd->pd_ctl.w = PD_CTL_HOST_READY |
 		((crypto_tfm_alg_type(req->tfm) == CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AEAD) ?
 			PD_CTL_HASH_FINAL : 0);
-	pd->pd_ctl_len.w = 0x00400000 | (assoclen + datalen);
-	pd_uinfo->state = PD_ENTRY_INUSE | (is_busy ? PD_ENTRY_BUSY : 0);
 
 	wmb();
 	/* write any value to push engine to read a pd */
@@ -1031,6 +1037,11 @@ static void crypto4xx_bh_tasklet_cb(unsigned long data)
 		     ((READ_ONCE(pd->pd_ctl.w) &
 		       (PD_CTL_PE_DONE | PD_CTL_HOST_READY)) ==
 		       PD_CTL_PE_DONE)) {
+			/* order the PE_DONE flag read above before reading
+			 * the descriptor status and output data written by
+			 * the device
+			 */
+			dma_rmb();
 			crypto4xx_pd_done(core_dev->dev, tail);
 			tail = crypto4xx_put_pd_to_pdr(core_dev->dev, tail);
 		} else {
-- 
2.55.0


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