netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 4.10 1/6] crypto/sha256: Refactor the API so it can be used without shash

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Message-ID: <20161226075757.GA8916@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:57:57 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4.10 1/6] crypto/sha256: Refactor the API so it can
 be used without shash

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 09:57:53AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I actually do use incremental hashing later on.   BPF currently
> vmallocs() a big temporary buffer just so it can fill it and hash it.
> I change it to hash as it goes.

How much data is this supposed to hash on average? If it's a large
amount then perhaps using the existing crypto API would be a better
option than adding this.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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