Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] crypto: AES CBC multi-buffer glue code

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:39:45AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> The inner cipher is called synchronously from the outer layer 
> async cipher algorithm in cbc_mb_async_ablk_decrypt via
> 
>         err = crypto_blkcipher_crt(child_tfm)->decrypt(
>                 &rctx->desc, req->dst, req->src, req->nbytes);

We should avoid bypassing the API and directly calling crypto
driver functions like this.

What if you made it a proper ablkcipher and just called it through
the API?

Thanks,
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