Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni: add setkey for driver-gcm-aes-aesni

From: Stephan Mueller
Date: Thu Jan 22 2015 - 16:20:44 EST


Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2015, 10:23:57 schrieb Tadeusz Struk:

Hi Tadeusz,

>On 01/20/2015 05:25 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>>> Rather than adding a bogus setkey function, please fix this mess
>>> properly by moving the top-level setkey function into the __driver
>>> one where it should be. Compare with how we handle it in the
>>> ablk_helper which is pretty much the same thing.
>>
>> Tadeusz, are you working on that update or shall I have a look?
>
>Hi,
>No, I thought that the agreement was that we don't want to allow user
>space to use these helpers directly, right? Am I missing something?


That would be correct. But if I understood Herbert correctly, he is
creating a patch that disables these service ciphers for general usage.

Ciao
Stephan
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