[dm-devel] [PATCH v5 7/7] crypto: arm64/aes - implement accelerated ESSIV/CBC mode

[Eric Biggers]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:40:47PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Add an accelerated version of the 'essiv(cbc(aes),aes,sha256'
> skcipher, which is used by fscrypt, and in some cases, by dm-crypt.
> This avoids a separate call into the AES cipher for every invocation.

This technically should say "in some cases by fscrypt and dm-crypt", since as
we've discussed previously, most of the time this is not what fscrypt uses.

- Eric