Re: [PATCH 0/9] crypto: fix alignmask handling

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 12:19, Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

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One thing that became apparent to me while looking into this stuff is
that the skcipher encrypt/decrypt API ignores alignmasks altogether,
so this is something we should probably look into at some point, i.e.,
whether the alignmask handling in the core API is still worth it, and
if it is, make skcipher calls honour them.

In the ablkcipher->skcipher conversion I did, I was not aware of this,
but I don't remember seeing any issues being reported in this area
either, so I wonder how many cases actually exist where alignmasks
actually matter.

What do you mean? With both ablkcipher/skcipher the alignmask was
usually enforced through the walker mechanism.

Oops, I missed that completely. Apologies for the noise.