From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] crypto: algif_skcipher - Disallow nonincremental algorithms
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:00:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240223060043.GF25631@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zc2za7szGC+nxEHM@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:47:07PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 02:56:38PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't they still be supported if the data is being read/written all at once?
>
> It is supported, or at least it worked for my libkcapi tests on
> adiantum. This error only triggers if we enter the code-path that
> splits the operation into two or more (because the user didn't
> write all the data in one go).
Great, that isn't what the commit message says though.
>
> > Also, ENOSYS isn't really an appropriate error code. ENOSYS normally means that
> > the system call isn't supported at all. Maybe use EOPNOTSUPP?
>
> Within the crypto subsystem ENOSYS means that a particular
> functionality is not supported. I'm happy to change that but
> that should go into a different patch as there are existing uses
> which are similar (e.g., cloning).
This is a user API; it's not "within the crypto subsystem". The usual
conventions for system calls apply.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-23 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 9:04 [PATCH 00/15] crypto: Add twopass lskcipher for adiantum Herbert Xu
2023-12-02 4:55 ` [PATCH 01/15] crypto: skcipher - Add tailsize attribute Herbert Xu
2024-02-14 23:44 ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-15 6:40 ` Herbert Xu
2024-02-23 6:01 ` Eric Biggers
2023-12-02 5:42 ` [PATCH 02/15] crypto: algif_skcipher - Add support for tailsize Herbert Xu
2023-12-04 10:24 ` [PATCH 04/15] crypto: xts - Convert from skcipher to lskcipher Herbert Xu
2023-12-05 6:09 ` [PATCH 05/15] crypto: skcipher - Add twopass attribute Herbert Xu
2023-12-05 6:13 ` [PATCH 06/15] crypto: algif_skcipher - Disallow nonincremental algorithms Herbert Xu
2024-02-14 22:56 ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-15 6:47 ` Herbert Xu
2024-02-23 6:00 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2023-12-05 9:52 ` [PATCH 07/15] crypto: adiantum - Use lskcipher instead of cipher Herbert Xu
2023-12-06 4:46 ` [PATCH 08/15] crypto: skcipher - Add incremental support to lskcipher wrapper Herbert Xu
2023-12-06 5:49 ` [PATCH 09/15] crypto: chacha-generic - Convert from skcipher to lskcipher Herbert Xu
2024-02-14 23:41 ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-15 6:52 ` Herbert Xu
2023-12-06 6:05 ` [PATCH 10/15] crypto: skcipher - Move nesting check into ecb Herbert Xu
2023-12-06 8:55 ` [PATCH 11/15] crypto: skcipher - Propagate zero-length requests to lskcipher Herbert Xu
2023-12-07 10:03 ` [PATCH 03/15] crypto: skcipher - Remove ivsize check for lskcipher simple templates Herbert Xu
2023-12-07 10:13 ` [PATCH 12/15] crypto: cts - Convert from skcipher to lskcipher Herbert Xu
2023-12-29 10:47 ` [PATCH 13/15] crypto: cts,xts - Update parameters blocksize/chunksize/tailsize Herbert Xu
2024-02-14 23:00 ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-15 7:57 ` Herbert Xu
2024-02-23 6:09 ` Eric Biggers
2023-12-30 7:16 ` [PATCH 14/15] crypto: lskcipher - Export incremental interface internally Herbert Xu
2024-02-13 8:48 ` [PATCH 15/15] crypto: adiantum - Convert from skcipher to lskcipher Herbert Xu
2024-02-14 23:35 ` [PATCH 00/15] crypto: Add twopass lskcipher for adiantum Eric Biggers
2024-02-15 8:20 ` Herbert Xu
2024-02-23 6:39 ` Eric Biggers
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