From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe@baylibre.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, heiko@sntech.de,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: flush poison data
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 09:25:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YsU4/qrnxG8yjFwC@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220705175834.GA15815@lst.de>
Le Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 07:58:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 07:56:11PM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> > My problem is that a dma_sync on the data buffer corrupt the poison buffer as collateral dommage.
> > Probably because the sync operate on a larger region than the requested dma_sync length.
> > So I try to flush poison data in the cryptoAPI.
>
> Data structures that are DMAed to must be aligned to
> the value returned by dma_get_cache_alignment(), as non-coherent DMA
> by definition can disturb the data inside that boundary. That is not
> a bug but fundamentally part of how DMA works when the device attachment
> is not cache coherent.
I am sorry but I dont see how this can help my problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-06 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-01 13:27 [RFC PATCH] crypto: flush poison data Corentin Labbe
2022-07-01 13:35 ` Ben Dooks
2022-07-05 8:21 ` LABBE Corentin
2022-07-05 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-05 17:56 ` LABBE Corentin
2022-07-05 17:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-06 7:25 ` LABBE Corentin [this message]
2022-07-06 9:47 ` Ben Dooks
2022-07-06 11:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-06 12:23 ` LABBE Corentin
2022-07-01 14:36 ` Andre Przywara
2022-07-01 14:55 ` LABBE Corentin
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