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Message-ID: <20150519065929.GA28610@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 14:59:29 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:58:12PM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>
> > So where does the key get generated? The crypto tfm should be
> > allocated when you generate the key.
> 
> In fs/ext4/crypto.c,
> 
>  - writepage
>    - ext4_encrypt
>      - ext4_get_crypto_ctx
>        - crypto_alloc_ablkcipher
>      - ext4_page_crypto
>        - crypto_ablkcipher_setkey
>        - ablkcipher_request_alloc(GFP_NOFS)
>        - ablkcipher_request_set_crypt(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
>        - crypto_ablkcipher_encrypt
> 
>  - end_io
>    - crypto_free_tfm

No that's where you set the key, not where you generate the key.
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