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Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - fix non-64-bit write/read access

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  Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - fix non-64-bit write/read access Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-06-18 09:00 +0200

#1167613 — Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - fix non-64-bit write/read access

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:59:07PM +0200, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> The patch
> 
> 	crypto: caam - Add definition of rd/wr_reg64 for little endian platform
> 
> added support for little endian platforms to the CAAM driver. Namely a
> write and read function for 64 bit registers.
> The only user of this functions is the Job Ring driver (drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c).
> It uses the functions to set the DMA addresses for the input/output rings.
> However, at least in the default configuration, the least significant 32 bits are
> always in the base+0x0004 address; independent of the endianness of the bytes itself.
> That means the addresses do not change with the system endianness.
> 
> DMA addresses are only 32 bits wide on non-64-bit systems, writing the upper 32 bits
> of this value to the register for the least significant bits results in the DMA address
> being set to 0.
> 
> Fix this by always writing the registers in the same way.
> 
> Suggested-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>

Patch applied.
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