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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 17:34:26 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:17:25AM +0300, Iuliana Prodan wrote:
> Now, in crypto-engine, if hardware queue is full (-ENOSPC),
> requeue request regardless of MAY_BACKLOG flag.
> If hardware throws any other error code (like -EIO, -EINVAL,
> -ENOMEM, etc.) only MAY_BACKLOG requests are enqueued back into
> crypto-engine's queue, since the others can be dropped.
> The latter case can be fatal error, so those cannot be recovered from.
> For example, in CAAM driver, -EIO is returned in case the job descriptor
> is broken, so there is no possibility to fix the job descriptor.
> Therefore, these errors might be fatal error, so we shouldn’t
> requeue the request. This will just be pass back and forth between
> crypto-engine and hardware.
> 
> Fixes: 6a89f492f8e5 ("crypto: engine - support for parallel requests based on retry mechanism")
> Signed-off-by: Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>
> ---
>  crypto/crypto_engine.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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