Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/9] crypto: authencesn - Add algorithm to handle IPsec extended sequence numbers

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:37:41AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:30:17PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:04:58AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > >
> > > +	return crypto_authenc_esn_genicv(req, iv, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP);
> > 
> > BTW, we should get rid of these MAY_SLEEP flags.  Originally I
> > included them for the IPsec encryption path because that happens
> > to be sleepable. We should instead be getting it from the request
> > itself.
> > 
> 
> Not sure if I get you right, but we do not set this flag here.
> We use it to mask the flags we got from the request, so we pass
> this flag to the ahash algorithm just if it was set by the
> original aead request.

Indeed you are right.  As long as it is only a mask and only
used on the sync path it should be OK.

Thanks,
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