From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: Kausty <kkumbhalkar@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] crypto/api.c: remove the second argument of crypto_alg_available()
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:46:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031054642.GD8009@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0501200952440.952-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:54:28AM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Kausty wrote:
>
> > hi
> > A small observation. In crypto/api.c in linux-2.6.8.1
> >
> > The function:
> > int crypto_alg_available(const char *name, u32 flags)
> >
> > has a flags param which does not seem to be used.
> >
> > though it does not matter much but has this been fixed in later releases?
> > xfrm functions in ipsec do call this function but always with flags as 0.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > kausty
>
> IIRC, this was to allow future code to specify preferences for the type of
> algorithm driver (e.g. hardware), but has not been used. This is an
> example of why it's a bad idea to add infrastructure which isn't being
> used at the time.
Since it's still unused, a patch to remove this second argument is
below.
> - James
cu
Adrian
<-- snip -->
The second argument of crypto_alg_available() was not used and is
therefore removed in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
---
crypto/api.c | 2 +-
crypto/tcrypt.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ppp_mppe.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/crypto.h | 4 ++--
net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c | 8 ++++----
5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/include/linux/crypto.h.old 2005-10-31 06:23:42.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/include/linux/crypto.h 2005-10-31 06:23:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@
* Algorithm query interface.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO
-int crypto_alg_available(const char *name, u32 flags);
+int crypto_alg_available(const char *name);
#else
-static inline int crypto_alg_available(const char *name, u32 flags)
+static inline int crypto_alg_available(const char *name)
{
return 0;
}
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/crypto/api.c.old 2005-10-31 06:24:05.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/crypto/api.c 2005-10-31 06:24:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
return ret;
}
-int crypto_alg_available(const char *name, u32 flags)
+int crypto_alg_available(const char *name)
{
int ret = 0;
struct crypto_alg *alg = crypto_alg_mod_lookup(name);
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/crypto/tcrypt.c.old 2005-10-31 06:24:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/crypto/tcrypt.c 2005-10-31 06:24:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
while (*name) {
printk("alg %s ", *name);
- printk((crypto_alg_available(*name, 0)) ?
+ printk((crypto_alg_available(*name)) ?
"found\n" : "not found\n");
name++;
}
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/drivers/net/ppp_mppe.c.old 2005-10-31 06:24:35.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/drivers/net/ppp_mppe.c 2005-10-31 06:24:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -695,8 +695,8 @@
static int __init ppp_mppe_init(void)
{
int answer;
- if (!(crypto_alg_available("arc4", 0) &&
- crypto_alg_available("sha1", 0)))
+ if (!(crypto_alg_available("arc4") &&
+ crypto_alg_available("sha1")))
return -ENODEV;
sha_pad = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sha_pad), GFP_KERNEL);
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c.old 2005-10-31 06:24:51.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1-full/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c 2005-10-31 06:25:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
if (!probe)
break;
- status = crypto_alg_available(name, 0);
+ status = crypto_alg_available(name);
if (!status)
break;
@@ -428,19 +428,19 @@
BUG_ON(in_softirq());
for (i = 0; i < aalg_entries(); i++) {
- status = crypto_alg_available(aalg_list[i].name, 0);
+ status = crypto_alg_available(aalg_list[i].name);
if (aalg_list[i].available != status)
aalg_list[i].available = status;
}
for (i = 0; i < ealg_entries(); i++) {
- status = crypto_alg_available(ealg_list[i].name, 0);
+ status = crypto_alg_available(ealg_list[i].name);
if (ealg_list[i].available != status)
ealg_list[i].available = status;
}
for (i = 0; i < calg_entries(); i++) {
- status = crypto_alg_available(calg_list[i].name, 0);
+ status = crypto_alg_available(calg_list[i].name);
if (calg_list[i].available != status)
calg_list[i].available = status;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 12:48 crypto/api.c: crypto_alg_available(): flags param not used Kausty
2005-01-20 14:54 ` James Morris
2005-10-31 5:46 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-10-31 11:58 ` [2.6 patch] crypto/api.c: remove the second argument of crypto_alg_available() Herbert Xu
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