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authorGilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>2017-10-18 08:00:33 +0100
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2017-11-03 22:11:16 +0800
commit6b80ea389a0bceee6a0a801474b78ad0a8cd034d (patch)
tree6f4725c6a0ac6c093a1f6dc4077fb40865cf3882 /crypto/cryptd.c
parentc8dd5e456d2483f051bc92f9c67f01144d122a0b (diff)
downloadlinux-6b80ea389a0bceee6a0a801474b78ad0a8cd034d.tar.gz
crypto: change transient busy return code to -ENOSPC
The crypto API was using the -EBUSY return value to indicate
both a hard failure to submit a crypto operation into a
transformation provider when the latter was busy and the backlog
mechanism was not enabled as well as a notification that the
operation was queued into the backlog when the backlog mechanism
was enabled.

Having the same return code indicate two very different conditions
depending on a flag is both error prone and requires extra runtime
check like the following to discern between the cases:

	if (err == -EINPROGRESS ||
	    (err == -EBUSY && (ahash_request_flags(req) &
			       CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG)))

This patch changes the return code used to indicate a crypto op
failed due to the transformation provider being transiently busy
to -ENOSPC.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/cryptd.c')
-rw-r--r--crypto/cryptd.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/cryptd.c b/crypto/cryptd.c
index 0508c48a45c4..bd43cf5be14c 100644
--- a/crypto/cryptd.c
+++ b/crypto/cryptd.c
@@ -137,16 +137,14 @@ static int cryptd_enqueue_request(struct cryptd_queue *queue,
 	int cpu, err;
 	struct cryptd_cpu_queue *cpu_queue;
 	atomic_t *refcnt;
-	bool may_backlog;
 
 	cpu = get_cpu();
 	cpu_queue = this_cpu_ptr(queue->cpu_queue);
 	err = crypto_enqueue_request(&cpu_queue->queue, request);
 
 	refcnt = crypto_tfm_ctx(request->tfm);
-	may_backlog = request->flags & CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG;
 
-	if (err == -EBUSY && !may_backlog)
+	if (err == -ENOSPC)
 		goto out_put_cpu;
 
 	queue_work_on(cpu, kcrypto_wq, &cpu_queue->work);