Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx/xts - use fallback for ciphertext stealing

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 05:06:24PM +0300, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> For correctness and compliance with the XTS-AES specification, we are
> adding support for ciphertext stealing to XTS implementations, even
> though no use cases are known that will be enabled by this.
> 
> Since the Power8 implementation already has a fallback skcipher standby
> for other purposes, let's use it for this purpose as well. If ciphertext
> stealing use cases ever become a bottleneck, we can always revisit this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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