> Indeed. And it keeps the clutter inside the aes_xxx.c files, which > could easily be updated in the future to use some auxdata feature if > it ever materializes. > > I think it would help this code, but also the ESP code you pointed > out, to have some kind of 'ordered synchronous' CRYPTO_xxx flag, > where the crypto API could manage the kmem cache and percpu pointers > to allocations. Yeah, could be useful to have that more generally. > This goes well beyond what we can do as a fix, though, so we need an > intermediate solution in any case. > > Shall I propose the patch? I assume you mean a mac80211 patch - sure, I'll take that instead of the two I have now. johannes
