Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:48:24PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Before I do this, can you explain what the difference is between
> crypto_cipher and crypto_skcipher?  net/bluetooth/smp.c currently uses
> crypto_alloc_skcipher, which you added in:

crypto_cipher operates on a single block.  crypto_skcipher uses
modes of operations and works on multiple blocks.
> 
> commit 71af2f6bb22a4bf42663e10f1d8913d4967ed07f
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sun Jan 24 21:18:30 2016 +0800
> 
>     Bluetooth: Use skcipher and hash
> 
> Am I just supposed to replace "skcipher" with "cipher" everywhere?

If you're operating on one block only then you should use cipher,
otherwise skcipher would be the appropriate choice.

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