On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:04:10PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 09:29, Giovanni Cabiddu
> <giovanni.cabi...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Dominik Przychodni <dominik.przycho...@intel.com>
> >
> > Include an additional check on the cipher length to prevent undefined
> > behaviour from occurring upon submitting requests which are not a
> > multiple of AES_BLOCK_SIZE.
> >
> > Fixes: d370cec32194 ("crypto: qat - Intel(R) QAT crypto interface")
> > Signed-off-by: Dominik Przychodni <dominik.przycho...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabi...@intel.com>
>
> I only looked at the patch, and not at the entire file, but could you
> explain which AES based AEAD implementations require the input length
> to be a multiple of the block size? CCM and GCM are both CTR based,
> and so any input length should be supported for at least those modes.
This is only for AES CBC as the qat driver supports only
authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes)), authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)) and
authenc(hmac(sha512),cbc(aes)).
Regards,
--
Giovanni
