[PATCH] crypto: arm/aes-neonbs - fix usage of cbc(aes) fallback

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Oct 29 02:49:45 EDT 2020


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Not sure what is happening here: IIRC the intention was to rely on the
> fact that only the sync cbc(aes) implementation needs the fallback,
> and therefore, allocating a sync skcipher explicitly would avoid this
> recursion.
> 
> Herbert?

It works only if everything is built in.  If cbc is built as a
module then you need Horia's patch to prevent a loop.

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