Re: [PATCH 16/18] crypto: talitos - do hw_context DMA mapping outside the requests

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:16:30PM +0000, Horia GeantÄ wrote:
>
> > And what about ALGIF path from user space ?
> > What if the user never calls the last sendmsg() which will call 
> > hash_finup() ?
> > 
> User is expected to follow the rules of the crypto API.
> Of course, kernel won't (or at least shouldn't) crash in case of misuse.
> However, in these cases some resources might not be freed - it's unavoidable.

the crypto API does not require the presence of a finalisation.
It is entirely optional.  So leaving resources pinned down until
final/finup occurs is unacceptable, both from user-space and the
kernel.

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