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Even though the kernel's implementations of AES-XTS were updated to implement ciphertext stealing and can operate on inputs of any size larger than or equal to the AES block size, this feature is rarely used in practice. In fact, in the kernel, AES-XTS is only used to operate on 4096 or 512 byte blocks, which means that not only the ciphertext stealing is effectively dead code, the logic in the bit sliced NEON implementation to deal with fewer than 8 blocks at a time is also never used. Since the bit-sliced NEON driver already depends on the plain NEON version, which is slower but can operate on smaller data quantities more straightforwardly, let's fallback to the plain NEON implementation of XTS for any residual inputs that are not multiples of 128 bytes. This allows us to remove a lot of complicated logic that rarely gets exercised in practice. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.