1. 19 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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      crypto: algif_hash - User-space interface for hash operations · fe869cdb
      Herbert Xu 提交于
      This patch adds the af_alg plugin for hash, corresponding to
      the ahash kernel operation type.
      
      Keys can optionally be set through the setsockopt interface.
      
      Each sendmsg call will finalise the hash unless sent with a MSG_MORE
      flag.
      
      Partial hash states can be cloned using accept(2).
      
      The interface is completely synchronous, all operations will
      complete prior to the system call returning.
      
      Both sendmsg(2) and splice(2) support reading the user-space
      data directly without copying (except that the Crypto API itself
      may copy the data if alignment is off).
      
      For now only the splice(2) interface supports performing digest
      instead of init/update/final.  In future the sendmsg(2) interface
      will also be modified to use digest/finup where possible so that
      hardware that cannot return a partial hash state can still benefit
      from this interface.
      
      Thakns to Miloslav Trmac for reviewing this and contributing
      fixes and improvements.
      Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Tested-by: NMartin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
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