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authorMarcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-08-12 21:49:37 (GMT)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-08-14 10:42:04 (GMT)
commitc849163b80c05f4567b1adef5db7f377460f88cd (patch)
treeb7e3e40e463ed921040c1049212e40132103c536 /kernel/.gitignore
parentf22d08111a1d23f7432ee8d9c2dd637deb6963bd (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-c849163b80c05f4567b1adef5db7f377460f88cd.tar.xz
crypto: nx - fix concurrency issue
The NX driver uses the transformation context to store several fields containing data related to the state of the operations in progress. Since a single tfm can be used by different kernel threads at the same time, we need to protect the data stored into the context. This patch makes use of spin locks to protect the data where a race condition can happen. Reviewed-by: Fionnuala Gunter <fin@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Joy Latten <jmlatten@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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