cc: Viro because I'm talking about iov_iter.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Herbert Xu
> wrote:
>> As for AEAD we never had a sync interface to begin with and I
>> don't think I'm going to add one.
>
> That's too bad
Hi Herbert,
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> As for AEAD we never had a sync interface to begin with and I
> don't think I'm going to add one.
That's too bad to hear. I hope you'll reconsider. Modern cryptographic
design is heading more and more in the direction of using AEAD
Why did you drop me from the CC list when you were replying to
my email?
Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 01:32:08PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
>> Are you sure? Any instance of *_ON_STACK must only be used with
>> sync algorithms and most drivers under drivers/crypto declare
>> thems
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 01:37:12PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:25:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> > Herbert, how hard would it be to teach the crypto code to use a more
> > sensible data structure than scatterlist and to use coccinelle fix
> > this stuff for real?
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 01:32:08PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:25:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> > > The following crypto drivers initialize a scatterlist to point into an
> > > ablkcipher_request, which may have been allocated on the stack with
> > > SKCIPHER_RE
