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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>"
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
	snitzer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypto/algapi - make crypto_xor() take separate dst and src arguments
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:51:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu_9S4GHmoUE-H8ZLra90OYNPjOwVGi0PJ02WFNDe6udeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718083956.GA5813@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 18 July 2017 at 09:39, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 02:45:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> There are quite a number of occurrences in the kernel of the pattern
>>
>>     if (dst != src)
>>             memcpy(dst, src, walk.total % AES_BLOCK_SIZE);
>>     crypto_xor(dst, final, walk.total % AES_BLOCK_SIZE);
>>
>> or
>>
>>     crypto_xor(keystream, src, nbytes);
>>     memcpy(dst, keystream, nbytes);
>
> What keeping crypto_xor as it is and adding a new entry point for
> the 4-argument case?
>

Also fine.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 13:45 [PATCH 0/2] crypto/algapi - refactor crypto_xor() to avoid memcpy()s Ard Biesheuvel
2017-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] crypto/algapi - use separate dst and src operands for __crypto_xor() Ard Biesheuvel
2017-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] crypto/algapi - make crypto_xor() take separate dst and src arguments Ard Biesheuvel
2017-07-18  8:39   ` Herbert Xu
2017-07-18  8:51     ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]

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