From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: allow building a copy as loadable module for testing.
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:38:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191219183854.GA54076@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219160636.26316-1-msuchanek@suse.de>
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 05:06:36PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> There is no way to just run the tests built into testmgr. Also it is
> rarely possible to build testmgr modular due to KConfig dependencies.
>
> Add a module that does not provide infrastructure, just runs testmgr
> tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Why does this need to be a kernel module? Since the self-tests are already run
at algorithm registration time, it's already possible to use AF_ALG or
crypto_user to allocate all algorithms which have self-tests.
- Eric
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2019-12-19 16:06 [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: allow building a copy as loadable module for testing Michal Suchanek
2019-12-19 18:38 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
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