From: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Nicolai Stange" <nstange@suse.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>,
"Torsten Duwe" <duwe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] crypto: api - make the algorithm lookup priorize non-larvals
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:59:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgqupz41.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211022115146.GA27997@gondor.apana.org.au> (Herbert Xu's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:51:46 +0800")
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:34:11AM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
>>
>> In order to keep a FIPS certification manageable in terms of scope,
>> we're looking for a way to disable everything under drivers/crypto iff
>> fips_enabled == 1. The most convenient way to achieve this downstream
>> would be to add dummy entries to testmgr.c like so:
>
> How about testing based on the flag CRYPTO_ALG_KERN_DRIVER_ONLY?
> That flag is meant to correspond to pretty much exactly
> drivers/crypto.
Hmm, I checked a couple of crypto/drivers and it seems like not all are
setting this flag: random examples would include cavium/nitrox/,
chelsio/, padlock*.c, vmx/, ...
Many thanks!
Nicolai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-27 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-03 18:14 [PATCH 0/8] crypto: api - priorize tested algorithms in lookup Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/8] crypto: af_alg - reject requests for untested algorithms Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/8] crypto: user " Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/8] crypto: api - only support lookups for specific CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED status Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 4/8] crypto: api - don't add larvals for !(type & CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED) lookups Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 5/8] crypto: api - always set CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED in lookup larvals' ->mask/type Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 6/8] crypto: api - make crypto_alg_lookup() consistently check for failed algos Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 7/8] crypto: api - lift common mask + type adjustment to crypto_larval_lookup() Nicolai Stange
2021-10-03 18:14 ` [PATCH 8/8] crypto: api - make the algorithm lookup priorize non-larvals Nicolai Stange
2021-10-08 11:54 ` Herbert Xu
2021-10-11 8:34 ` Nicolai Stange
2021-10-22 11:51 ` Herbert Xu
2021-10-27 9:59 ` Nicolai Stange [this message]
2021-10-28 2:42 ` Herbert Xu
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