From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>,
Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr - reinstate kconfig support for fast tests only
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:55:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aEpryXbiFJ5mmsvj@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250611175525.42516-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 10:55:25AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
> index e9fee7818e270..8612ebf655647 100644
> --- a/crypto/Kconfig
> +++ b/crypto/Kconfig
> @@ -174,20 +174,30 @@ config CRYPTO_USER
> Userspace configuration for cryptographic instantiations such as
> cbc(aes).
>
> config CRYPTO_SELFTESTS
> bool "Enable cryptographic self-tests"
> - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Please restore the dependency on EXPERT. I do not want random
users exposed to this toggle.
> +config CRYPTO_SELFTESTS_FULL
> + bool "Enable the full set of cryptographic self-tests"
> + depends on CRYPTO_SELFTESTS
> + default y
> + help
> + Enable the full set of cryptographic self-tests for each algorithm.
> +
> + For development and pre-release testing, leave this as 'y'.
> +
> + If you're keeping the crypto self-tests enabled in a production
> + kernel, you likely want to set this to 'n' to speed up the boot. This
> + will cause the "slow" tests to be skipped. This may suffice for a
> + quick sanity check of drivers and for FIPS 140-3 pre-operational self-
> + testing, but some issues can be found only by the full set of tests.
Please remove the "default y".
Thanks,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-12 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-11 17:55 [PATCH] crypto: testmgr - reinstate kconfig support for fast tests only Eric Biggers
2025-06-11 18:53 ` Diederik de Haas
2025-06-11 19:04 ` Eric Biggers
2025-06-11 19:47 ` Diederik de Haas
2025-06-11 20:14 ` Eric Biggers
2025-06-12 5:55 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2025-06-12 6:09 ` Eric Biggers
2025-06-12 9:03 ` Herbert Xu
2025-06-12 17:20 ` Eric Biggers
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