Re: [PATCH 2/3] crypto: cavium: Remove the individual encrypt/decrypt function for each algorithm

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:16:05AM +0000, George Cherian wrote:
>
> -int cvm_aes_encrypt_cbc(struct ablkcipher_request *req)
> +static inline u32 cvm_cipher_type(const char *name)
>  {
> -	return cvm_enc_dec(req, true, AES_CBC);
> -}
>  
> -int cvm_aes_decrypt_cbc(struct ablkcipher_request *req)
> -{
> -	return cvm_enc_dec(req, false, AES_CBC);
> +	const struct cvm_cipher *cipher = cvm_cipher_table;
> +
> +	while (cipher->name) {
> +		if (!strcmp(cipher->name, name))
> +			break;
> +		cipher++;
> +	}
> +
> +	return cipher->value;
>  }

That's rather unwieldy.  It's usually easier to embed the cipher
type into the algo structure and then get to it via the alg object.

Cheers,
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