netdev - Re: [PATCH v9,net-next,12/12] crypto: octeontx2: register with linux crypto framework

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Message-ID: <20201113084440.138a76fb@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:44:40 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Srujana Challa <schalla@...vell.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        sgoutham@...vell.com, gakula@...vell.com, sbhatta@...vell.com,
        schandran@...vell.com, pathreya@...vell.com,
        Lukasz Bartosik <lbartosik@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9,net-next,12/12] crypto: octeontx2: register with
 linux crypto framework

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:16:01 +1100 Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:10:39PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 17:39:24 +0530 Srujana Challa wrote:  
> > > CPT offload module utilises the linux crypto framework to offload
> > > crypto processing. This patch registers supported algorithms by
> > > calling registration functions provided by the kernel crypto API.
> > > 
> > > The module currently supports:
> > > - AES block cipher in CBC,ECB,XTS and CFB mode.
> > > - 3DES block cipher in CBC and ECB mode.
> > > - AEAD algorithms.
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha384),cbc(aes)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha512),cbc(aes)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha1),ecb(cipher_null)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha256),ecb(cipher_null)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha384),ecb(cipher_null)),
> > >   authenc(hmac(sha512),ecb(cipher_null)),
> > >   rfc4106(gcm(aes)).  
> > 
> > Herbert, could someone who knows about crypto take a look at this, 
> > if the intention is to merge this via net-next?  
> 
> This patch seems to be quite large but it is self-contained.  How
> about waiting a release cycle and then resubmitting it to linux-crypto
> on its own?

SGTM, actually everything starting from patch 4 is in drivers/crypto, 
so we can merge the first 3 into net-next and the rest via crypto?