On 02/25/2016 04:11 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:56:31PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>
>> I can fix this in the driver by doing a memset to zero of the request
>> context area during the import. But I guess I'm also wondering if there
>> is an expectation/requirement that crypto_ahash_init() be called before
>> doing an import?  If there is the I can add that to the testmgr code
>> instead.
> 
> No init means wiping out the hash state so that a new hash can be
> computed.  Import means importing the hash state so that computation
> can be continued from that point onwards.
> 
> So they're independent of each other and you must be able to handle
> an import without an init and vice versa.

Thanks for the clarification Herbert.  I'll send in a patch to perform
the memset during the import.  I know it's late in the cycle, but will
you be able to apply it to the current cryptodev-2.6 tree which contains
the ccp import/export patches?

Thanks,
Tom

> 
> Cheers,
> 
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