linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni: add setkey for driver-gcm-aes-aesni

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Message-ID: <54C1403D.1010608@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:23:57 -0800
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
CC:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, 'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni: add setkey for driver-gcm-aes-aesni

On 01/20/2015 05:25 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>> Rather than adding a bogus setkey function, please fix this mess
>> properly by moving the top-level setkey function into the __driver
>> one where it should be.  Compare with how we handle it in the
>> ablk_helper which is pretty much the same thing.
> 
> Tadeusz, are you working on that update or shall I have a look?
> 
Hi,
No, I thought that the agreement was that we don't want to allow user
space to use these helpers directly, right? Am I missing something?
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