kcapi_cipher_stream_op — obtain processed data (stream)
int32_t kcapi_cipher_stream_op ( | struct kcapi_handle * handle, |
| struct iovec * iov, | |
uint32_t iovlen); |
handle[in] cipher handle
iov[out] scatter/gather list pointing to buffers to be filled with the resulting data from a cipher operation.
iovlen[in] number of scatter/gather list elements.
This call can be called interleaved with kcapi_cipher_stream_update to
fetch the processed data.
This function may cause the caller to sleep if the kernel buffer holding
the data is empty. The process will be woken up once more data is sent
by calling kcapi_cipher_stream_update.
Note, when supplying buffers that are not multiple of block size, the buffers will only be filled up to the maximum number of full block sizes that fit into the buffer.
The kernel supports multithreaded applications where one or more threads
send data via the kcapi_cipher_stream_update function and another thread
collects the processed data via kcapi_cipher_stream_op. The kernel, however,
will return data via kcapi_cipher_stream_op as soon as it has some data
available. For example, one thread sends 1000 bytes to be encrypted and
another thread already waits for the ciphertext. The kernel may send only,
say, 500 bytes back to the waiting process during one
kcapi_cipher_stream_op call. In a subsequent calls to
kcapi_cipher_stream_op more ciphertext is returned. This implies that when
the receiving thread shall collect all data there is,
kcapi_cipher_stream_op must be called in a loop until all data is received.
return number of bytes obtained from the kernel upon success;
a negative errno-style error code if an error occurred