Re: [PATCH/proposal] dm-crypt: add digest-based iv generation mode

[Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>]

Am Sa, den 28.02.2004 schrieb Matt Mackall um 01:39:

> > There's just one small difficulty with having some of the structures in
> > the context: Their size is variable. But known after the init function.
> > So the cra_ctxsize isn't sufficient to describe the length of a tfm
> > strucure. So we need another per-algorithm-category method that returns
> > the additional size required. They might just return iv_size or iv_size
> > + omac_pad_size for ciphers and hmac_pad_size for digests or something
> > like this.
> 
> Hmmm, crypto_alloc_tfm does:
> 
>         tfm = kmalloc(sizeof(*tfm) + alg->cra_ctxsize, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> So I'm not clear on how the necessary size can be anything else at
> copy time?

Forget it, my mistake. cra_ctxsize is set by the algorithms themselves.