On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:02:40AM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>
> I noticed this, after my code did not work properly. The reason was,
> that my private ctx was not retrieved with
> crypto_ablkcipher_ctx_aligned() (attached) but with
> crypto_ablkcipher_ctx() (and it was not properly aligned anymore).
> My fault right?
Yeah if your ctx needs to be aligned you need to use
crypto_tfm_ctx_aligned.
> Shouldn't the behavior of crypto_blkcipher_ctx_aligned() (which is
> currently unused) be the default one?
Most of our existing algorithms don't care about alignment.
> --- a/include/crypto/algapi.h
> +++ b/include/crypto/algapi.h
> @@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ static inline void *crypto_ablkcipher_ct
> return crypto_tfm_ctx(&tfm->base);
> }
>
> +static inline void *crypto_ablkcipher_ctx_aligned(struct crypto_ablkcipher
> *tfm)
> +{
> + return crypto_tfm_ctx_aligned(&tfm->base);
> +}
> +
> static inline struct crypto_blkcipher *crypto_spawn_blkcipher(
> struct crypto_spawn *spawn)
Looks good. Could you add a description and sign-off?
Thanks,
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