Re: [PATCH 0/3] s390/crypto: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS

Harald Freudenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-s390
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-15 02:59, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 01:37:33PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSYS for s390's crypto code.
>> 
>> Static code checking for acquiring and releasing locks used to be done
>> with sparse. That was removed with [1] and replaced with a clang based
>> approach [2]. The new approach requires that each subsystem needs to 
>> be
>> explicitly enabled for checking.
>> 
>> Do that for s390's crypto code. In order to avoid false positives the
>> code has to be slightly reworked, since conditionally acquiring and
>> releasing locks does not work with the checker (besides that this is
>> sub optimal coding style).
>> 
>> [1] 5b63d0ae94cc ("compiler-context-analysis: Remove Sparse support")
>> [2] 3269701cb256 ("compiler-context-analysis: Add infrastructure for 
>> Context Analysis with Clang")
>> 
>> Note:
>> 
>> - "Pre-existing issues" reported by AI will not be addressed in the
>>   context of this series
>> 
>> Heiko Carstens (3):
>>   s390/crypto: Rework ctr_aes_crypt() to remove conditional locking
>>   s390/crypto: Rework ctr_paes_do_crypt() to remove conditional 
>> locking
>>   s390/crypto: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS
>> 
>>  arch/s390/crypto/Makefile    |   2 +
>>  arch/s390/crypto/aes_s390.c  |  54 +++++++++++-------
>>  arch/s390/crypto/paes_s390.c | 104 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>>  3 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 
> I presume this is going through the s390 tree?
> 
> Cheers,

We can do this via s390 subsystem. I anyway wanted to suggest this.
Thanks
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