Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/18] crypto: introduce some common functions for af_alg backend

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 04:57:04PM +0800, Longpeng(Mike) wrote:
> The AF_ALG socket family is the userspace interface for linux
> crypto API, this patch adds af_alg family support and some common
> functions for af_alg backend. It'll be used by afalg-backend crypto
> latter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Longpeng(Mike) <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure            |  22 ++++++++++
>  crypto/Makefile.objs |   1 +
>  crypto/afalg.c       | 118 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  crypto/afalgpriv.h   |  55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 196 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 crypto/afalg.c
>  create mode 100644 crypto/afalgpriv.h
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/afalgpriv.h b/crypto/afalgpriv.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d21160c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/crypto/afalgpriv.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@

> +
> +struct QCryptoAFAlg {
> +    int tfmfd;
> +    int opfd;
> +    char *name;

What actually uses this 'name' field ?  I'm not seing anything in the
patch series that ever reads it, once set. So can we just delete it
perhaps ?

> +    struct msghdr *msg;
> +    struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
> +};

Regards,
Daniel
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