Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - Do not overwrite IV

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 09:55:19AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> So I would argue that the generic GCM driver should ensure that
> whatever it passes into scatterlists is safe for non-cache coherent
> DMA. Blowing up the struct like this is probably not the right answer,
> instead, we should probably have an auth_tag pointer and a separate
> kmalloc buffer so we don't affect cache coherent architectures too
> much.

Yes I agree.  GCM needs to ensure auth_tag is aligned properly.

Thanks,
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