On 06/15/2015 07:29 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: >> I thought that the ctx needs to be available for implementations to store >> private data. >> > This way we can allocate and store any type of key in the >> > <alg>_parse_key() helper and still have the cxt >> > available for implementations to use for their stuff (e.g. HW context). > No for symmetric key algorithms we always store the key in the > context and never in the tfm proper. > > Think about it, the generic tfm doesn't have any idea on what > the key contains so how can it store it? Only the implementation > knows the key format and can store it in a useful way.
Ok I wanted to handle everything in the parse_key helper without any help from the implementation. I can change the helper to return the key and implementation will store it in the ctx. Is this what you are suggesting? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
