Re: [BUGFIX -v2 for .32] crypto, gcm, fix another complete call incomplete fuction

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Nov 09 2009 - 22:10:41 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:49:59AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> Yes. This is for performance only. Because crypto_gcm_reqctx(req) is not
> so trivial (it needs access tfm), and used by every xxx_done function,
> so I think it is better to just call crypto_gcm_reqctx once and pass it
> down. Do you think so?

Since we only support blocksize == 16, that means the alignment
cannot exceed 16 bytes. So just always align to 16 bytes and that
should make crypto_gcm_reqctx trivial once optimised by the
compiler.

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