Re: [GIT PULL] Crypto Update for 6.15

Linus Torvalds
2025-03-29T18:17:37Z

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 at 11:06, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The crypto_shash API is synchronous and operates on virtual addresses. So it
> just provides a simple way to support multiple hash algorithms, and none of the
> legacy asynchronous hardware offload stuff. It's crypto_ahash that has that.

Well, it's "simple" only compared to ahash.

It's still a complete nightmare compared to just doing the obvious
thing directly when that is an option.

I happened to just merge the rdma updates a couple of minutes ago, and
they actually removed the example I was using (ie the whole "use
crypto layer for crc32c" insanity).

Linus