From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: smueller@chronox.de, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_ALG broken?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160808.160420.2284525436367147596.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160808225851.GE1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 23:58:51 +0100
> I don't know, but this seems to go completely against Linus' no
> userspace regressions, which seems to be an absolute requirement of
> all kernel development... Linus flames people for arguing against
> that rule!
Reading the explanation for the change given to you, it's impossible
for some hash algorithms to function properly without being given the
key first, and would crash.
Therefore the requirement is reasonable, even though it is unfortunate
that a critical piece of userspace infrastructure was coded this way.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 16:44 AF_ALG broken? Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-08 17:47 ` Jeffrey Walton
2016-08-08 18:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-09 3:18 ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09 7:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-09 7:14 ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09 7:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-09 10:35 ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-08 18:18 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-08 18:30 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-08 22:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-08 23:04 ` David Miller [this message]
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