[dm-devel] [PATCH v13 1/6] crypto: essiv - create wrapper template for ESSIV generation

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 07:58, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 05:17:33PM +0300, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Implement a template that wraps a (skcipher,shash) or (aead,shash) tuple
> > so that we can consolidate the ESSIV handling in fscrypt and dm-crypt and
> > move it into the crypto API. This will result in better test coverage, and
> > will allow future changes to make the bare cipher interface internal to the
> > crypto subsystem, in order to increase robustness of the API against misuse.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  crypto/Kconfig  |  28 +
> >  crypto/Makefile |   1 +
> >  crypto/essiv.c  | 663 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 692 insertions(+)
>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>

Milan,

Hopefully, this can still be taken for v5.4. If not, please coordinate
with Eric on how to get this queued for v5.5

Thanks,
Ard.