From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Joachim Vandersmissen <git@jvdsn.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr - block Crypto API xxhash64 in FIPS mode
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 05:09:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aagvBY-XMfPIqkDO@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260303193102.GA2846@sol>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 11:31:02AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > It sounds like xxhash should be removed the crypto API entirely.
> > There's no user of it, it's not crypto, and doing xxhash through
> > the userspace crypto API socket is so stupid that I doubt anyone
> > attempted it.
>
> dm-integrity, which uses crypto_shash and accepts arbitrary hash
> algorithm strings from userspace, might be relying on "xxhash64" being
> supported in crypto_shash. The integritysetup man page specifically
> mentions xxhash64:
Oh, ok. So at least for now we need it, although it would be nice to
convert dm-integrity to lib/crypto/ and limit it to the advertised
algorithms (including xxhash).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-03 6:05 [PATCH] crypto: testmgr - block Crypto API xxhash64 in FIPS mode Joachim Vandersmissen
2026-03-03 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-03 19:31 ` Eric Biggers
2026-03-04 9:55 ` Milan Broz
2026-03-04 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-03-05 7:19 ` Joachim Vandersmissen
2026-03-14 5:11 ` Herbert Xu
2026-03-15 0:43 ` Joachim Vandersmissen
2026-03-15 4:32 ` Herbert Xu
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