RE: [PATCH v1] crypto: driver for tegra AES hardware

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Varun Wadekar wrote at Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:23 AM:
> >> +	/* assign new context to device */
> >> +	ctx->dd = dd;
> >> +	dd->ctx = ctx;
> >> +
> >> +	if (ctx->flags & FLAGS_NEW_KEY) {
> >> +		/* copy the key */
> >> +		memset(dd->ivkey_base, 0, AES_HW_KEY_TABLE_LENGTH_BYTES);
> >> +		memcpy(dd->ivkey_base, ctx->key, ctx->keylen);
> > these really should be writes to mutually exclusive addresses.
> 
> Why?

To avoid redundant work; there's little point memset()ing a region that's
going to be copied over the top of immediately afterwards.

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