linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] crypto: consolidate and clean up compression APIs

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Message-ID: <ZMOTAB595JyptIN4@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:05:52 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Haren Myneni <haren@...ibm.com>,
        Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
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        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] crypto: consolidate and clean up compression
 APIs

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:03:23PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Fair enough. But my point remains: this requires a lot of boilerplate
> on the part of the driver, and it would be better if we could do this
> in the acomp generic layer.

Absolutely.  If the hardware can't support allocate-as-you-go then
this should very much go into the generic layer.

> Does the IPcomp case always know the decompressed size upfront?

No it doesn't know.  Of course, we could optimise it because we know
that in 99% cases, the packet is going to be less than 4K.  But we
need a safety-net for those weird jumbo packets.

Thanks,
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