Re: [PATCH 07/29] crypto: skcipher - optimize initializing skcipher_walk fields

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 02:10:11PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> This seems strictly worse than my version, so I don't plan to do this.  It's
> more lines of code, and it causes an extra push and pop to be needed in
> skcipher_walk_virt() to free up enough registers to hold all values at once.  It
> may be intended that API users are supposed to use the helper functions instead
> of accessing the algorithm struct directly, but this code is not a user; it's
> part of the API implementation in crypto/skcipher.c.  There are already lots of
> other direct accesses to the algorithm struct in the same file, and even another
> in skcipher_walk_virt() already.  The helper functions are pointless in this
> context and just cause problems like the one this patch is fixing.

OK, but please add a comment where the accesses occur so that
people won't try to turn this back.

Thanks,
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