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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:42:19 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] DRBG: efficiency patches On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 05:37:04PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > The following patch set contains random fixes to increase the efficiency of > the DRBG. Changes include the removal of unneeded memset(0) and sanity > checks. All changes do not weaken the implementation as only code is > removed that is clearly covered by other code paths. > > In addition, the cpu_to_be kernel function together with a type cast is > used to convert an integer into its string representation. This patch > increases the speed of the DRBG by 10%. > > Stephan Mueller (8): > DRBG: replace int2byte with cpu_to_be > DRBG: kzfree does not need a check for NULL pointer > DRBG: remove superflowous checks > DRBG: remove superflowous memset(0) > DRBG: use kmalloc instead of kzalloc for V and C > DRBG: remove unnecessary sanity checks > DRBG: remove configuration of fixed values > DRBG: remove unnecessary sanity check for shadow state All applied. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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