Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 04/14] crypto: add a new driver for Marvell's CESA

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:54:21 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> >
> > +static int mv_cesa_cbc_aes_op(struct ablkcipher_request *req,
> > +			      struct mv_cesa_op_ctx *tmpl)
> > +{
> > +	mv_cesa_update_op_cfg(tmpl, CESA_SA_DESC_CFG_CRYPTCM_CBC,
> > +			      CESA_SA_DESC_CFG_CRYPTCM_MSK);
> > +	memcpy(tmpl->ctx.blkcipher.iv, req->info, 16);
> 
> You need to copy the IV back into req->info after completion.

I haven't found any driver updating the req->info field with the new
IV. Could you point me to one of them.

> 
> Incidentally we don't seem to test for output IVs in our self-
> test so bugs like this can slip through until someone tries to
> do chaining with it.  That's something worth adding to testmgr.

Yes, that makes sense, but since a lot a drivers (if not all of them)
are not updating this field we'll break them when adding this test
unless we make it optional (with a new flag ?).

Do you have any suggestion to address this problem ?

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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
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