Re: [RFC PATCH crypto 4/4] AES-NI: Add support to Intel AES-NI instructions for x86_64 platform

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:34:13AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> static void ablk_complete(struct crypto_async_request *req, int err)
> {
>         struct ablkcipher_request *ablk_req = ablkcipher_request_cast(req);
>         struct async_aes_req_ctx *req_ctx =
>                 ablk_aes_req_ctx(ablk_req, crypto_ablkcipher_reqtfm(ablk_req));

This is not guaranteed to work.  Your completion caller may be
called with a request pointer other than the one that you passed
to it.  The only thing we guarantee is that req->data has the
value that you set at the beginning.

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