Most kernel applications utilizing the crypto API operate synchronously and on small buffer sizes, therefore do not benefit from QAT acceleration.
Reduce the priority of QAT implementations for both skcipher and aead algorithms, allowing more suitable alternatives to be selected by default.
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250613012357.GA3603104@google.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c index 3c4bba4a8779..d69cc1e5e023 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ static struct aead_alg qat_aeads[] = { { .base = { .cra_name = "authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes))", .cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha1", - .cra_priority = 4001, + .cra_priority = 100, .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE, .cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct qat_alg_aead_ctx), @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ static struct aead_alg qat_aeads[] = { { .base = { .cra_name = "authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))", .cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha256", - .cra_priority = 4001, + .cra_priority = 100, .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE, .cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct qat_alg_aead_ctx), @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ static struct aead_alg qat_aeads[] = { { .base = { .cra_name = "authenc(hmac(sha512),cbc(aes))", .cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha512", - .cra_priority = 4001, + .cra_priority = 100, .cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE, .cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct qat_alg_aead_ctx), @@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static struct aead_alg qat_aeads[] = { { static struct skcipher_alg qat_skciphers[] = { { .base.cra_name = "cbc(aes)", .base.cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_cbc", - .base.cra_priority = 4001, + .base.cra_priority = 100, .base.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .base.cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE, .base.cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct qat_alg_skcipher_ctx), @@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ static struct skcipher_alg qat_skciphers[] = { { }, { .base.cra_name = "ctr(aes)", .base.cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_ctr", - .base.cra_priority = 4001, + .base.cra_priority = 100, .base.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .base.cra_blocksize = 1, .base.cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct qat_alg_skcipher_ctx), @@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ static struct skcipher_alg qat_skciphers[] = { { }, { .base.cra_name = "xts(aes)", .base.cra_driver_name = "qat_aes_xts", - .base.cra_priority = 4001, + .base.cra_priority = 100, .base.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY, .base.cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE,