[PATCH 2/2] crypto: atmel-aes - Reset the controller before each use

Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus at microchip.com
Mon Nov 6 07:45:50 PST 2017


Hi, Romain,

On 10/31/2017 05:25 PM, Romain Izard wrote:
> When using the rfc4543(gcm(aes))) mode, the registers of the hardware
> engine are not empty after use. If the engine is not reset before its
> next use, the following results will be invalid.
> 
> Always reset the hardware engine.

Thanks for the fix! I could reproduce the issue only when running
rfc4543(gcm(aes))) and then, immediately after, ecb(aes).

Have you encountered this bug with other combination of algorithms?

I'm trying to isolate the bug so that we can have a more fine-grained
fix.

Cheers,
ta



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