Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] crypto: switch to shash for ESSIV generation

[Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 11:20, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:15:01AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > Ah yes, thanks for reminding me. There was some debate in the past
> > about this, but I don't remember the details.
>
> I think there were some controversy regarding whether the resulting
> code lived in drivers/md or crypto.  I think as long as drivers/md
> is the only user of the said code then having it in drivers/md should
> be fine.
>
> However, if we end up using/reusing the same code for others such as
> fs/crypto then it might make more sense to have them in crypto.
>

Agreed. We could more easily test it in isolation and ensure parity
between different implementations, especially now that we have Eric's
improved testing framework that tests against generic implementations.