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ccr: Use a software OCF session for requests which fallback to software.

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ccr: Use a software OCF session for requests which fallback to software.

Previously the driver duplicated code from cryptosoft.c to handle
certain edge case AES-CCM and AES-GCM requests. However, this
approach has a few downsides:

  1. It only uses "plain" software and not accelerated software since it uses enc_xform directly.
  1. It performs the operation synchronously even though the caller believes it is invoking an async driver. This was fine for the original use case of requests with only AAD and no payload that execute quickly, but is a bit more disingenuous for large requests which fall back due to exceeding the size of a firmware work request (e.g. due to large scatter/gather lists).
  1. It has required several updates since ccr(4) was added to the tree.

Instead, allocate a software session for AES-CCM and AES-GCM sessions
and dispatch a cloned request asynchronusly to the software session.

Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33608

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jhbAuthored on Jan 4 2022, 10:22 PM
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markj
Differential Revision
D33608: ccr: Use a software OCF session for requests which fallback to software.
Parents
rG74d3f1b63dbe: OCF: Add crypto_clonereq().
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