Re: [PATCH] tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Vakul,
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Async crypto accelerators (e.g. drivers/crypto/caam) support offloading
>> GCM operation. If they are enabled, crypto_aead_encrypt() return error
>> code -EINPROGRESS. In this case tls_do_encryption() needs to wait on a
>> completion till the time the response for crypto offload request is
>> received.
>>
>
> Thank you for this patch. I think it is actually a bug fix and should
> probably go into stable

On second though in stable we should probably just disable async tfm
allocations.
It's simpler. But this approach is still good for -next


Gilad


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