linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure support

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:39:20 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S.Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli_7982@...oo.com>,
	Vinodh Gopal <vinodh.gopal@...el.com>,
	James Guilford <james.guilford@...el.com>,
	Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@...el.com>,
	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@....fi>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure
 support

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:39:30PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> The __cbc-aes-aesni-mb algorithm is marked as internal algorithm 
> with flag CRYPTO_ALG_INTERNAL, so it should not be picked up by other
> algorithms and should only be invoked from mcryptd.

OK I guess that's fine then.

> Anyway, I've udpated the aes_cbc_mb code with ablkcipher helper.
> So I will be posting the new series with ablkcipher walk
> after testing is done.

Yes I think what you have is a very special case.  As you said
the ablkcipher interface should be fairly low in overhead so I
think it makes sense to use that instead of blkcipher.

> The __sha1-mb works in tandem with the outer layer of mcryptd 
> aysnc algorithm. It does the completion for the outer 
> async algorithm.  So as far as mcryptd is concerned, the
> inner algorithm is synchronous in the sense that it is done
> once it dispatch the job to __sha1-mb and don't have to worry about it.
> I don't think mcryptd check for the return value from __sha1-mb
> so it should be okay to return 0 instead of -EINPROGRESS.  
> I'll double check that.

If it can never return EINPROGRESS then we should probably remove
the code in it that says "return -EINPROGRESS".

Thanks,
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