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From: Chenghai Huang <huangchenghai2@huawei.com>
To: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	<liulongfang@huawei.com>, <qianweili@huawei.com>,
	<wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>, <linwenkai6@hisilicon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] crypto: hisilicon/sec2 - fix scheduling while atomic in aead soft fallback
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:29:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260911102942.387778-3-huangchenghai2@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260911102942.387778-1-huangchenghai2@huawei.com>

From: Wenkai Lin <linwenkai6@hisilicon.com>

sec_aead_soft_crypto() allocates the sub-request with GFP_KERNEL, which
may sleep.  This is safe when called directly from sec_aead_crypto()
(process context), but the function is also reachable through the
backlog drain path.

When an AEAD request sits in the backlog queue and qp_send_message()
returns a non-EBUSY error, the backlog is drained in software while
the backlog spinlock is still held. The GFP_KERNEL allocation inside
aead_request_alloc() can then schedule out, triggering scheduling
while atomic.

Fix it by switching the allocation to GFP_ATOMIC so it is safe in both
the process-context path and the spinlock-held backlog drain path.

Fixes: 0a2a464f8631 ("crypto: hisilicon/sec - fix the aead software fallback for engine")
Signed-off-by: Wenkai Lin <linwenkai6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenghai Huang <huangchenghai2@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/sec_crypto.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/sec_crypto.c b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/sec_crypto.c
index 0a2f7c8b44fc..bbb6826ab256 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/sec_crypto.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/sec_crypto.c
@@ -2533,7 +2533,7 @@ static int sec_aead_soft_crypto(struct sec_ctx *ctx,
 	struct aead_request *subreq;
 	int ret;
 
-	subreq = aead_request_alloc(a_ctx->fallback_aead_tfm, GFP_KERNEL);
+	subreq = aead_request_alloc(a_ctx->fallback_aead_tfm, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!subreq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-11 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-11 10:29 [PATCH 0/4] crypto: hisilicon - fix several issues in QM and SEC drivers Chenghai Huang
2026-09-11 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] crypto: hisilicon/qm - fix devm_kcalloc argument order Chenghai Huang
2026-09-11 10:29 ` Chenghai Huang [this message]
2026-09-11 10:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] crypto: hisilicon/qm - fix memory leak in hisi_qm_sort_devices Chenghai Huang
2026-09-11 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] crypto: hisilicon/qm - fix GFP flag inconsistency in hisi_qm_memory_init Chenghai Huang

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