Re: [RFC PATCH crypto 4/4] AES-NI: Add support to Intel AES-NIinstructions for x86_64 platform

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:55:10PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> I use a "shell" cbc(aes) algorithm which chooses between
> cryptd(__cbc-aes-aesni) and __cbc-aes-aesni according to context. But
> the struct ablkcipher_request passed in can not be used for cryptd(*).
> This can be resolved by allocating another struct ablkcipher_request for
> cryptd(*) for each incoming struct ablkcipher_request. But is there any
> better solution?

You should include that other ablkcipher_request as part of the
context of your ablkcipher_request.

See for example how aead embeds it.

Cheers,
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