[dm-devel] [PATCH v13 5/6] md: dm-crypt: switch to ESSIV crypto API template

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Tue Sep 3 18:55:37 UTC 2019


On Mon, Aug 19 2019 at 10:17am -0400,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:

> Replace the explicit ESSIV handling in the dm-crypt driver with calls
> into the crypto API, which now possesses the capability to perform
> this processing within the crypto subsystem.
> 
> Note that we reorder the AEAD cipher_api string parsing with the TFM
> instantiation: this is needed because cipher_api is mangled by the
> ESSIV handling, and throws off the parsing of "authenc(" otherwise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

I really like to see this type of factoring out to the crypto API;
nicely done.

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>

Herbert, please feel free to pull this, and the next 6/6 patch, into
your crypto tree for 5.4.  I see no need to complicate matters by me
having to rebase my dm-5.4 branch ontop of the crypto tree, etc.

Thanks,
Mike




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