On 06/15/2015 04:59 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> > +struct crypto_akcipher {
>> > + void *key;
> Having a void * pointer here is useless. The normal way of doing
> it is to place the key into the tfm context.
I thought that the ctx needs to be available for implementations to store private data.
This way we can allocate and store any type of key in the <alg>_parse_key() helper and still have the cxt
available for implementations to use for their stuff (e.g. HW context).
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