Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD support

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Dec 06 2014 - 18:28:10 EST


On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> While implementing that request, I thought about setting the auth size as part
> of the msg control in sendmsg instead of setsockopt. This would save us a
> system call and thus CPU cycles.

No, this is a tfm property and therefore you can't set them on the
child sockets sicne two child sockets would share the same tfm.

Cheers,
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