On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:34:39PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote: > > We would only be able to remove it if all AEAD implementations are converted. > But for the conversion time, we do face that issue.
It doesn't matter. Nobody in the kernel uses that. In fact I wonder whether we should even do it for the kernel API. We only need it for the user-space API because it goes through read/write. > Are you suggesting that the entire data in the src SGL is first copied to the > dst SGL by algif_aead? If yes, that still requires significant src/dst SGL > tinkering as we have the tag -- the src SGL for encrypt does not have the tag > space where the dst SGL for encrypt is required to have the tag size. This is > vice versa for the decryption operation. It's really only a problem for decryption. In that case you can extend the dst SG list to include the tag. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
