Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove unused support for crypto tfm cloning

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

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 12:30:22AM -0500, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series is targeting net-next because it depends on
> "net/tcp: Remove tcp_sigpool".  So far no commits in cryptodev conflict
> with this, so I suggest that this be taken through net-next for 7.2.
> 
> This series removes support for transformation cloning from the crypto
> API.  Now that the TCP-AO and TCP-MD5 code no longer uses it, it no
> longer has a user.  And it's unlikely that a new one will appear, as the
> library API solves the problem in a much simpler and more efficient way.
> 
> This feature also regressed performance for all crypto API users, since
> it changed crypto transformation objects into reference-counted objects.
> That added expensive atomic operations.  The refcount is reverted by
> this series, thus fixing the performance regression.
> 
> A subset of this was previously sent in
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260307224341.5644-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
> Compared to that version, this version is a bit more comprehensive.
> 
> Eric Biggers (6):
>   crypto: hash - Remove support for cloning hash tfms
>   crypto: cipher - Remove crypto_clone_cipher()
>   crypto: api - Remove crypto_clone_tfm()
>   crypto: api - Remove per-tfm refcount
>   crypto: api - Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into __crypto_alloc_tfm()
>   crypto: api - Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into crypto_create_tfm_node()
> 
>  crypto/ahash.c                   | 70 -----------------------------
>  crypto/api.c                     | 76 +++++---------------------------
>  crypto/cipher.c                  | 28 ------------
>  crypto/cmac.c                    | 16 -------
>  crypto/cryptd.c                  | 16 -------
>  crypto/hmac.c                    | 31 -------------
>  crypto/internal.h                | 10 -----
>  crypto/shash.c                   | 37 ----------------
>  include/crypto/hash.h            |  8 ----
>  include/crypto/internal/cipher.h |  2 -
>  include/linux/crypto.h           |  1 -
>  11 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 1a1f055318d82e64485a6ff8420e5f70b4267998
> -- 
> 2.54.0

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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