Re: CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:33:40PM +0300, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:

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Hello Herbert,

CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC is heavily used like:

    crypto_alloc_shash(hash_alg, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);

Where did you see that? There is no need to specify ASYNC in the
mask for shash since they're always synchronous.

Yes, that is why I wonder...

For example in security/keys/

But why do we need it for AHASH or ABLKCIPHER?
It is obvious without it that they can be async?

- Dmitry

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