[dm-devel] xts fuzz testing and lack of ciphertext stealing support

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Mon Aug 12 04:51:18 UTC 2019


On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:29:38PM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> It will very likely fail with that CAAM h/w, but that only proves that you
> should not use plain64be IV's together with CAAM h/w. Which should be

It doesn't matter whether it's wrong or not.

The fact is that this is an interface that we export to user-space
and we must NEVER break that.  So if your driver is breaking this
interface then your driver is broken and needs to be fixed.

Cheers,
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