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    crypto: nx - Fix reentrancy bugs · 030f4e96
    Herbert Xu authored
    
    
    This patch fixes a host of reentrancy bugs in the nx driver.  The
    following algorithms are affected:
    
    * CCM
    * GCM
    * CTR
    * XCBC
    * SHA256
    * SHA512
    
    The crypto API allows a single transform to be used by multiple
    threads simultaneously.  For example, IPsec will use a single tfm
    to process packets for a given SA.  As packets may arrive on
    multiple CPUs that tfm must be reentrant.
    
    The nx driver does try to deal with this by using a spin lock.
    Unfortunately only the basic AES/CBC/ECB algorithms do this in
    the correct way.
    
    The symptom of these bugs may range from the generation of incorrect
    output to memory corruption.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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