Re: [PATCH v5 05/14] crypto: marvell/CESA: add TDMA support

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

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:56:33 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:05:27PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:58:59AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > >
> > > +	ret = dma_map_sg(cesa_dev->dev, req->src, creq->src_nents,
> > > +			 DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> > > +	if (ret != creq->src_nents)
> > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> > Hmm it doesn't quite work like that.  It returns zero on error,
> > otherwise it returns the number (n) of mapped entries which may be
> > less than what you gave it due to merging.  You're then supposed
> > to use only the first n entries which should contain everything.
> 
> Please take a look at Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt, it has
> everything you need to know about the dma_map_sg interface.

Yep, I read it, but apparently not carefully enough ;-).
I'll fix that.

Note that I did not ignore your previous comment on purpose (checking
for !ret to verify if the sg entries were successfully mapped), but I
have a specific case in the hash code where the requested len is 0
(final request) and thus the src_nents is 0 too. Which means I'm
expecting the dma_sg_map to return 0.

Anyway, now I'm doing the following test:

if (creq->src_nents && !ret)
	return -ENOMEM;

Best Regards,

Boris

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