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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v4 PATCH 00/11] crypto: Add partial block API and hmac to ahash
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 09:43:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250516164326.GB1241@sol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aCcD92EWd_8oxlEU@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 05:23:03PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 12:35:29PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > 
> > That seems backwards.  The shash one should be the regular one and ahash should
> > be special.
> 
> That's how it was in v3 but because of the switch to ahash in
> testmgr

So don't do that.

> > Still lacks any explanation for why this even matters.
> 
> I've explained it many times before.  The point is so that you
> can fallback from async to sync at any point in time by exporting
> the async hash state and importing it into the sync fallback that's
> now allocated for every async ahash.

So how come this hasn't been a problem until now?

> > As usual, missing a base-commit.  (Use the --base option to 'git format-patch')
> 
> It's based on cryptodev.

Which is a moving target.  You still need to use base-commit.

- Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-16 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-15  5:54 [v4 PATCH 00/11] crypto: Add partial block API and hmac to ahash Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 01/11] crypto: hash - Move core export and import into internel/hash.h Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 02/11] crypto: hash - Add export_core and import_core hooks Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 03/11] crypto: ahash - Handle partial blocks in API Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 04/11] crypto: hmac - Zero shash desc in setkey Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 05/11] crypto: hmac - Add export_core and import_core Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 06/11] crypto: shash - Set reqsize in shash_alg Herbert Xu
2025-05-15 19:32   ` Eric Biggers
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 07/11] crypto: algapi - Add driver template support to crypto_inst_setname Herbert Xu
2025-05-15 19:33   ` Eric Biggers
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 08/11] crypto: testmgr - Ignore EEXIST on shash allocation Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 09/11] crypto: hmac - Add ahash support Herbert Xu
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 10/11] crypto: testmgr - Use ahash for generic tfm Herbert Xu
2025-05-15 19:30   ` Eric Biggers
2025-05-15  5:54 ` [v4 PATCH 11/11] crypto: testmgr - Add hash export format testing Herbert Xu
2025-05-15 19:35 ` [v4 PATCH 00/11] crypto: Add partial block API and hmac to ahash Eric Biggers
2025-05-16  9:23   ` Herbert Xu
2025-05-16 16:43     ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2025-05-17  0:45       ` Herbert Xu
2025-05-17  1:17         ` Eric Biggers
2025-05-17  1:25           ` Herbert Xu

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