Re: [PATCH] crypto: gcm - fix cacheline sharing

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 06:10:51AM +0000, Horia Geanta wrote:
>
> Driver is not touching the DMA mapped areas, the DMA API conventions are
> carefully followed.
> It's touching a virtual pointer that is not DMA mapped, that just happens to be
> on the same cache line with a DMA mapped buffer.

Well you can't control what the users give you so you must assume
that the virtual address always share a cacheline with the DMA
buffer.

That's why you must only operate on that virtual address either
before you DMA map or after you DMA unmap.  Virtual addresses
that you allocate yourself (including ones on the stack) are
obviously not subject to this restriction.

Cheers,
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