Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/9] crypto: authencesn - Add algorithm to handle IPsec extended sequence numbers

From: Steffen Klassert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:02:45 +0100

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:39:07PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > Not sure if I get you right, but we do not set this flag here.
> > We use it to mask the flags we got from the request, so we pass
> > this flag to the ahash algorithm just if it was set by the
> > original aead request.
> 
> Indeed you are right.  As long as it is only a mask and only
> used on the sync path it should be OK.
> 

Yes, that's how it is used in both, authenc and authencesn.