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1=============
2CRYPTO ENGINE
3=============
4
5Overview
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7The crypto engine API (CE), is a crypto queue manager.
8
9Requirement
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11You have to put at start of your tfm_ctx the struct crypto_engine_ctx
12struct your_tfm_ctx {
13        struct crypto_engine_ctx enginectx;
14        ...
15};
16Why: Since CE manage only crypto_async_request, it cannot know the underlying
17request_type and so have access only on the TFM.
18So using container_of for accessing __ctx is impossible.
19Furthermore, the crypto engine cannot know the "struct your_tfm_ctx",
20so it must assume that crypto_engine_ctx is at start of it.
21
22Order of operations
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24You have to obtain a struct crypto_engine via crypto_engine_alloc_init().
25And start it via crypto_engine_start().
26
27Before transferring any request, you have to fill the enginectx.
28- prepare_request: (taking a function pointer) If you need to do some processing before doing the request
29- unprepare_request: (taking a function pointer) Undoing what's done in prepare_request
30- do_one_request: (taking a function pointer) Do encryption for current request
31
32Note: that those three functions get the crypto_async_request associated with the received request.
33So your need to get the original request via container_of(areq, struct yourrequesttype_request, base);
34
35When your driver receive a crypto_request, you have to transfer it to
36the cryptoengine via one of:
37- crypto_transfer_ablkcipher_request_to_engine()
38- crypto_transfer_aead_request_to_engine()
39- crypto_transfer_akcipher_request_to_engine()
40- crypto_transfer_hash_request_to_engine()
41- crypto_transfer_skcipher_request_to_engine()
42
43At the end of the request process, a call to one of the following function is needed:
44- crypto_finalize_ablkcipher_request
45- crypto_finalize_aead_request
46- crypto_finalize_akcipher_request
47- crypto_finalize_hash_request
48- crypto_finalize_skcipher_request
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