Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] AES cleanup

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:48:18PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> All the patches leading up to that are cleanups for the AES code, to reduce
> the dependency on the generic table based AES code, or in some cases, hardcoded
> dependencies on the scalar arm64 asm code which suffers from the same problem.
> It also removes redundant key expansion routines, and gets rid of the x86
> scalar asm code, which is a maintenance burden and is not actually faster than
> the generic code built with a modern compiler.

Nice, I like this a lot.

I presume you'll be converting the AES cipher users throughout
the kernel (such as net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen) at some point, right?

Thanks,
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