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    crypto: ccp - permit asynchronous skcipher as fallback · 413b61ce
    Ard Biesheuvel authored
    Even though the ccp driver implements an asynchronous version of xts(aes),
    the fallback it allocates is required to be synchronous. Given that SIMD
    based software implementations are usually asynchronous as well, even
    though they rarely complete asynchronously (this typically only happens
    in cases where the request was made from softirq context, while SIMD was
    already in use in the task context that it interrupted), these
    implementations are disregarded, and either the generic C version or
    another table based version implemented in assembler is selected instead.
    
    Since falling back to synchronous AES is not only a performance issue, but
    potentially a security issue as well (due to the fact that table based AES
    is not time invariant), let's fix this, by allocating an ordinary skcipher
    as the fallback, and invoke it with the completion routine that was given
    to the outer request.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohn Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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