Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2016, 15:45:38 schrieb Mat Martineau: Hi Mat,
> > > > Ok, I'll update the patch. > > Thanks, that helps (especially with pkcs1pad). Tadeusz received the updated patch from me to integrate it into his patch set. > > This brings me to another proposal for read buffer sizing: AF_ALG akcipher > can guarantee that partial reads (where the read buffer is shorter than > the output of the crypto op) will work using the same semantics as > SOCK_DGRAM/SOCK_SEQPACKET. With those sockets, as much data as will fit is > copied in to the read buffer and the remainder is discarded. > > I realize there's a performance and memory tradeoff, since the crypto > algorithm needs a sufficiently large output buffer that would have to be > created by AF_ALG akcipher. The user could manage that tradeoff by > providing a larger buffer (typically key_size?) if it wants to avoid > allocating and copying intermediate buffers inside the kernel. How shall the user know that something got truncated or that the kernel created memory? Ciao Stephan
