Re: [PATCH v2 07/17] crypto/cipher: Add GCM to QCryptoCipherMode

On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 06:51:41AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jamin Lin <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Introduce the GCM cipher mode so authenticated encryption can be built
> > on top of the existing qcrypto_cipher API. GCM is an IV-based mode, so
> > register it in mode_need_iv. No backend advertises it yet, so it stays
> > unsupported until a backend and the AAD/tag helpers are added in the
> > following patches.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jamin Lin <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
> 
> Same person giving Reviewed-by and Acked-by is odd.  Daniel, is this
> what you want?

Acked-by in the sense that as crypto subsys maintainer, I'm happy for
it to be merged by aspeed/arm maintainer as part of this series.

> 
> > ---
> >  qapi/crypto.json | 4 +++-
> >  crypto/cipher.c  | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/qapi/crypto.json b/qapi/crypto.json
> > index 2b55befef9..6e3a98ff68 100644
> > --- a/qapi/crypto.json
> > +++ b/qapi/crypto.json
> > @@ -121,10 +121,12 @@
> >  #
> >  # @ctr: Counter (Since 2.8)
> >  #
> > +# @gcm: Galois/Counter Mode (Since 11.2)
> > +#
> >  # Since: 2.6
> >  ##
> >  { 'enum': 'QCryptoCipherMode',
> > -  'data': ['ecb', 'cbc', 'xts', 'ctr']}
> > +  'data': ['ecb', 'cbc', 'xts', 'ctr', 'gcm']}
> >  
> >  ##
> >  # @QCryptoIVGenAlgo:
> 
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> [...]
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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