linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: Fix tfm allocation in cryptd_alloc

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Message-ID: <20090327083212.GA27903@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:32:12 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: Fix tfm allocation in
	cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:25:20AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> 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 <ying.huang@...el.com>

Could you tell me why it has to be raw?

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