Use crypto_alloc_base() instead of crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() to
allocate underlying tfm in cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher. Because
crypto_alloc_ablkcipher() prefer GENIV encapsulated crypto instead of
raw one, while cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher needed the raw one.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Because kernel_fpu_begin() and kernel_fpu_end() operations are too
slow, the performance gain of general mode implementation + aes-aesni
is almost all compensated.
The AES-NI support for more modes are implemented as follow:
- Add a new AES algorithm implementation named __aes-aesni without
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
I was about to report an oops in the crypt module (NULL pointer
dereferencing), but when I was half-way through entering the bug
in bugzilla, I read that people with nvidia tainted kernels aren't
supposed to file bug reports.
So the bug is going to remain unfixed!?
