On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 08:41:37AM +0000, Horia Geanta wrote:
>
> So if there is a real intention to support offloading skcipher, as this old
> commit suggests:
>
> 84c911523020 ("[CRYPTO] gcm: Add support for async ciphers")
> This patch adds the necessary changes for GCM to be used with async
> ciphers. This would allow it to be used with hardware devices that
> support CTR.
>
> then we must take special care when building skcipher req->src and avoid having
> it's first entry (auth_tag[16] in crypto_gcm_req_priv_ctx structure) sharing a
> cache line with req->iv.
Could you prepare a patch for this?
Thanks,
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